ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,121, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Dionex Softron GmbH (Germering, Germany).
"Loading a fluidic element" was invented by Christoph Hollnagel (Gauting, Germany), Hermann Hochgraber (Offenberg, Germany), Martin Rendl (Munich) and Anne Morgenstern (Gilching, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of loading a fluid into a fluidic element, wherein the method is performed in a fluidic system comprising the fluidic element, wherein the method comprises determining a volume that has flown into the fluidic element since a start time tstart, and at a switching time tswitch, switching the fluidic ...