ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,608, issued on May 27, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Automatic sample injection device" was invented by Daiki Fukushima (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic sample injection device is configured to perform an injection operation of a sample to an analyzer by a sampling mechanism (2) for sucking and dispensing a solvent. The automatic sample injection device is provided with solvent arrangement locations (14) at which a plurality of solvents each accommodated in a vial is arranged, a method setting unit (16) configured to set a method of a predetermined operation using a solvent based on informat...