ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,213, issued on May 12, was assigned to Dionex Softron GmbH (Germering, Germany) and Thermo Fisher (Shanghai) Instrument Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).
"Fluidic system and corresponding method" was invented by Thomas Wachinger (Altomuenster, Germany), Zhicheng Zhang (Shanghai), Hongfang Wang (Shanghai) and Yongqiang Li (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluidic system for fraction collection comprises a switching valve having a plurality of ports for connecting first and second ports in different configurations. An inlet line is directly connected to the first port, and a collection device is directly connected to the second port. In a c...