ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,489, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to JEOL Ltd. (Tokyo).

"NMR measurement apparatus, and method of identifying solvent" was invented by Hiroaki Sasakawa (Tokyo), Katsuo Asakura (Tokyo) and Kenya Izumi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An NMR spectrum is acquired from a nucleus of interest in a solvent included in a sample solution. A spectrum analyzer analyzes a number of splits, a splitting interval, a number of signals, and a signal interval based on the NMR spectrum. Based on these characteristic quantities, an identifier identifies the solvent. In another configuration, a plurality of NMR spectra acquired from a plurality...