ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,935, issued on March 24, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Analysis appliance management device" was invented by Tomohiro Kawase (Kyoto, Japan), Yugo Hase (Kyoto, Japan) and Takayuki Nakatani (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Identification information for identifying each analysis appliance and consumable information representing a usage state of a consumable included in each analysis appliance are acquired by an information acquirer from a control device. The identification information and the consumable information acquired by the information acquirer are held by an information holder. A display controlle...