ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,990, issued on July 14, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Data processing method and data processing system" was invented by Yuichiro Fujita (Kyoto, Japan) and Akira Nishio (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method includes a data preparing step of preparing actual data of a three dimensional chromatogram including a chromatogram and a spectrum acquired by chromatography analysis for a sample containing components, and spectral data for the components in the sample whose peaks overlap each other on the chromatogram a similarity calculating step of calculating, for each wavelength region, a si...