US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on March 25 for "Method of cleaning liquid chromatographic system and liquid chromatographic system" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,372, issued on March 25, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method of cleaning liquid chromatographic system and liquid chromatographic system" was invented by Keisuke Ogawa (Columbia, Md.), Andy Sasaki (Columbia, Md.), Kerry Hill (Columbia, Md.) and Timothy Lee (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid chromatographic system includes a column, a needle, a valve, a pump, and an analysis flow path. The valve sets the analysis flow path by switching between a first flow path through which an eluent flows from the valve to the column via the needle and a second flow path through which the eluent flows from the...