US Patent Issued to Waters Technologies on July 8 for "Chromatographic hardware improvements for separation of reactive molecules" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,734, issued on July 8, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Chromatographic hardware improvements for separation of reactive molecules" was invented by Mathew DeLano (Needham, Mass.), Matthew A. Lauber (North Smithfield, R.I.), Kevin Wyndham (Upton, Mass.) and Jennifer M. Nguyen (Uxbridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of reducing degradation of sample components in a liquid chromatography system. The method utilizes a masked metal frit to prevent or reduce metal surfaces from becoming catalytically active. The masked metal frit is a metal based frit that includ...