ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,344, issued on June 17, was assigned to Thermo Finnigan LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for segmentation of data processing workflows between instrument systems and associated computing devices" was invented by Trevor Hall (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of systems, methods, algorithms, and non-transitory media storing computer-readable instructions for segmenting data processing workflows are provided. In a first aspect, a computer-implemented method for segmenting data processing workflows includes determining a configuration of an instrument system. The instrument system can include an analytical instr...