ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,582, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Chromatographic analyzer and program for chromatographic analysis" was invented by Yuji Katsuyama (Kyoto, Japan), Kiriko Matsuo (Kyoto, Japan) and Rikito Marumoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a multi-analyte multi-component analysis, multiple kinds of numerical information are obtained for each sample as measurement and data-analysis results for multiple compounds. A threshold-based flag condition is set for each of two or more kinds of numerical information according to user operations. Multiple categories, each having a determination conditio...