ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,985, issued on July 14, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Online analysis system" was invented by Yusuke Nagai (Kyoto, Japan), Katsumasa Sakamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Takuya Yoshioka (Kyoto, Japan) and Yosuke Iwata (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Included are a sample supplier (2) configured to generate a sample fluid containing gas and liquid by causing two or more kinds of fluids to react with each other and to supply the sample fluid, a gas-liquid separator (4) provided downstream of the sample supplier (2), the gas-liquid separator (4) having a separation space (24) for separating gas and liquid in the sampl...