ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,868, issued on June 2, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Peak tracking device and peak tracking method" was invented by Akira Noda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peak tracking device includes a chromatogram acquirer that acquires chromatograms based on measurement data pieces obtained from measurements by an analyzer in accordance with analysis condition data pieces, a score calculator that calculates score data based on a belonging probability, the probability being calculated for each peak appeared in each chromatogram to belong to one of substances included in a sample, and a score displayer that displ...