ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,640, issued on May 27, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Validation device, validation method and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Satoru Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan), Fuyuki Okamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Chihiro Yasui (Kyoto, Japan) and Takeshi Yoshida (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Analysis control software is installed in an analysis control device. The analysis control software is the software for controlling an analysis device, and has a function of causing a display to display one or a plurality of operation images for receiving an operation for inspecting the analysis control software. ...