ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,208, issued on May 20, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Information providing system, server device, and analyzer" was invented by Kazuma Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroshi Arai (Kyoto, Japan), Masato Hirade (Kyoto, Japan), Yuichiro Ikeda (Kyoto, Japan), Hideo Nakajima (Kyoto, Japan), Kenji Yamasaki (Kyoto, Japan) and Keita Fujino (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technique for making a user analyze a sample while providing convenience to the user. An information providing system is provided with a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the part needs to be replaced, a display ...