ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,811, issued on May 5, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Preparative liquid chromatograph" was invented by Soichiro Tamaoki (Kyoto, Japan), Tomoyuki Yamazaki (Kyoto, Japan) and Shohei Sato (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separation channel on which a liquid delivery pump, a separation column, and a detector are provided, the liquid delivering pump being for feeding a mobile phase, the separation column being for separating a component in a sample, and the detector being for detecting peaks of components separated from each other by the separation column, a plurality of liquid handlers each including an injec...