ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,115, issued on May 12, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Sample vaporization unit and gas chromatograph" was invented by Kiyonori Koga (Kyoto, Japan), Kenichi Okumura (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuji Nakama (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample vaporization unit configured for vaporizing a sample injected from a syringe needle while supplying a carrier gas into a column is provided with a pipe, a heat conductive member, and a heater. The column is inserted into the pipe. The heat conductive member is provided along the outer circumference of the pipe. The heater is provided along the outer circumference of the hea...