ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,720, issued on April 14, was assigned to AAdvance Instruments LLC (Stony Brook, N.Y.).
"Live-column visualization chromatography for separation of compounds" was invented by Junzhuo Liao (Stony Brook, N.Y.), Robert William Weir (Canon City, Colo.), Xiao Yu (Stony Brook, N.Y.) and Zhanjun Luo (Lyman, Wyo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for live compound visualization in column chromatography separation of compounds, including a shortwave UV transparent column configured to receive a crude mixture to be separated with an eluting solvent; a sorbent that is homogenously premixed with an inorganic UV indicator, wherein the fluor...