US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on March 17 for "Temperature-assisted on-column focusing" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,344, issued on March 17, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Temperature-assisted on-column focusing" was invented by Stephen Weber (Allison Park, Pa.), Stephen Robert Groskreutz (Homestead, Pa.), Anthony Robert Horner (Pittsburgh) and Rachael-Anh Elizabeth Wilson (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: introducing a sample volume into an inlet end of a liquid chromatography column, wherein the liquid chromatography column includes a focusing segment proximal to the inlet end of the liquid chromatography column and a separation segment proxima...