ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,116, issued on May 12, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Gas monitoring device for gas chromatograph" was invented by Yuki Komori (Kyoto, Japan), Shori Kinoshita (Kyoto, Japan) and Nami Hongo (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas monitoring device for gas chromatograph comprises a pump to remove gas in a column oven of the gas chromatograph, a flow rate detection unit including a self-heating element arranged in a measurement flow path, a temperature acquisition unit configured to acquire temperature information about the gas flowing into the measurement flow path, and a controller configured to set the refe...