US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Oct. 20 for "Analysis device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,436, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Analysis device" was invented by Iori Otomo (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid sending pump supplies an eluent. A first sample supplier supplies a sample to a first separation column used for an analysis of the sample. A second sample supplier supplies a sample to a second separation column used for separation of the sample. A detector detects a sample that has passed through the first separation column or the second separation column. A flow-path switching valve is switchable between a first flow-path state in which an eluent that has been sup...