ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,074, issued on May 20, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Liquid waste monitoring device" was invented by Shotaro Ando (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Liquid waste is temporarily received by a liquid waste receiver that is provided on a discharge path for liquid waste generated in an analyzer to a liquid waste tank. An outflow liquid receiver is arranged adjacent to the liquid waste receiver, the liquid waste receiver and the outflow liquid receiver are partitioned by a partition having a certain height, and a liquid sensor is arranged in the outflow liquid receiver. In a case where an abnormality occurs in ...