ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,711, issued on May 27, was assigned to Waters Technologies Ireland Ltd. (Dublin).

"Techniques for generating and performing analytical methods" was invented by Phillip Young (Stockport, Great Britain), Matthew Wherry (Wilmslow, Great Britain), Kendon S. Graham (Millis, Mass.), Alexander Hooper (Stoke-on-Trent, Great Britain) and Christopher Carver (Northwich, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatus for are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory, and logic coupled to the at least one memory. The logic may be configured to perform an analytical service on a ...