ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,437, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Automatic sample injection system and gas chromatography analysis system" was invented by Yuki Komori (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injector includes an injection device and a round turret provided on a front side of the injection device. A sampler is provided with a vial holder and a conveyance arm. The injector has an accessible structure in which a moving path of the conveyance arm of one sampler arranged on the side of the two injectors for accessing the round turret of each of the two injectors is secured regardless of the size of the round...