ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,076, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Testing a sampling unit fluidically coupled to a source" was invented by Dominik Ruf (Baden Weurttemberg, Germany) and Thomas Ortmann (Straubenhardt/Ottenhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sampling unit is fluidically coupled to a source. The sampling unit is configured for receiving a fluidic sample from the source and chromatographically separating the received fluidic sample. The sampling unit is operated to introduce a test sample into the source. At least a portion of the introduced test sample from the source is received into t...