ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,869, issued on June 2, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Module for liquid chromatograph, controller, and liquid chromatograph" was invented by Naoki Yaeguchi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A module (10-1 to 10-n) for a liquid chromatograph that is incorporated in a liquid chromatograph (1) and performs information communication with a controller (20) of the liquid chromatograph (1). The module (10-1 to 10-n) includes an assignment requesting part (MF1) configured to transmit, when the module is an unassigned module (10-n) that is a module to which an identifier for communication with the controller (20) is...