ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,753, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Non-contact sampler with an open-port interface for liquid chromatography systems" was invented by David Michael Cox (Toronto) and Chang Liu (Richmond Hill, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing liquid chromatography (LC) with an LC system including an LC column and an analyzer includes delivering a transport liquid to an open port interface (OPI) of a sample receiving circuit, wherein the sample receiving circuit includes a sample transfer chamber. A sample is ejected from a sample holder into the OPI with a non-contact...