US Patent Issued to Agilent Technologies on July 21 for "Sample injector with metering device balancing pressure differences in an intermediate valve state" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,526, issued on July 21, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Sample injector with metering device balancing pressure differences in an intermediate valve state" was invented by Bernd Glatz (Friolzheirn, Germany) and Wolfgang Kretz (Waldbronn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample injector for use in a fluid separation system for separating compounds of a fluidic sample in a mobile phase, the sample injector comprising a switchable valve, a sample loop in fluid communication with the valve and configured for receiving the fluidic sample, a metering device in fluid communication with the sample lo...