ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,324, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Column oven and chromatography" was invented by Kei Shimojima (Kyoto, Japan) and Koji Numata (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For providing a column oven and chromatography capable of reliably preventing misconnection of a storage unit to a connecting part, the column oven includes: a hollow casing; a column unit including an analysis column, which is arranged in the casing and allows a mobile phase (Q) to flow through, and a storage unit, which is attached to the analysis column and stores data of the analysis column; multiple holding parts, which are ...