ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,986, issued on July 14, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Ion chromatography analysis system" was invented by Takuya Yonekura (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion chromatography analysis system includes a system monitoring part being configured to detect an abnormality, to determine, based on a fluctuation rate in a certain time of the predetermined state of a most recent of the monitor value, whether the fluctuation is a short-term fluctuation that occurs in a short term or a long-term fluctuation that occurs in a long term, and to identify a cause of the abnormality by using whether the fluctuation is t...