ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,056, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dionex Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Sample tracking workflow and method" was invented by Yongjing Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Husam Al-Esawi (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are scientific instrument support systems, as well as related methods, computing devices, and computer-readable media. For example, in some embodiments, samples are tracked using unique identifiers. An autosampler may detect the samples using unique identifiers and provide alerts when the sample is placed in the wrong location or when an incorrect or inc...