ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,144, issued on May 20, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Mobile phase delivery system and mobile phase delivery method" was invented by Iori Otomo (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solvent container (12), an additional solvent container (14), a liquid delivery pump (10), a flow path structure (16) including a connection flow path (18) a suction flow path (20), and a flow path opening/closing mechanism (22) for opening and closing the suction flow path (20) of the flow path structure (16) are included. The connection flow path (18) has a first end and a second end, the first end is inserted into the solvent ...