US Patent Issued to Waters Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Fitting for fluidic coupling in a chromatography system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,463, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Fitting for fluidic coupling in a chromatography system" was invented by Mark W. Moeller (Norton, Mass.), William B. Clark (North Attleboro, Mass.) and Charles T. Murphy (Norton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a fitting for fluidic coupling in a chromatography system includes welding a tube sleeve and an inner tube at an endface of each of the tube sleeve and the inner tube to create a tube assembly having a welded tube assembly endface and polishing the welded tube assembly endface."

The patent was filed on Oct. 5,...