US Patent Issued to Agilent Technologies on March 31 for "Fluid separation with sampling unit selectively coupling upstream and downstream of separation unit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,329, issued on March 31, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Fluid separation with sampling unit selectively coupling upstream and downstream of separation unit" was invented by Stephan Buckenmaier (Ettlingen, Germany), Sascha Lege (Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany), Thomas Ortmann (Straubenhardt/Ottenhausen, Germany) and Konstantin Shoykhet (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid processing apparatus includes a first fluid separation apparatus including a first fluid pump, configured for driving a first mobile phase, and a first separation unit configured for separating a fluidic sample w...