ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,325, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Gas analysis system" was invented by Wenjian Lu (Kyoto, Japan) and Shigeaki Shibamoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas analysis system (1) includes an inflow portion (C1) into which sample gas flows, a column (41, 42), a detector (50, 51) that detects a component in sample gas, a sampler module (M1) and a switching module (M2) including a plurality of valves (V1 to V10), and a controller (100) that independently controls the plurality of valves (V1 to V10). The controller (100) includes a storage (120) where function pattern information that defin...