ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,250, issued on May 13, was assigned to BL TEC K.K. (Osaka, Japan).
"Flow analysis device and flow analysis method" was invented by Yorihiro Kumazawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a flow analyzer which makes it possible to, without carrying out a complicated pretreatment, analyze mercury and analyze a sample containing mercury with accuracy equivalent to that of a conventional method. The object is attained by a flow analyzer including a sample introduction section (1), a reagent introduction section (3), and an analysis section (4), the flow analyzer further including: a heating section (5) that carrie...