US Patent Issued to Waters Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Encapsulated pre-analytic workflows for flow-through devices, liquid chromatography and mass spectrometric analysis" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,210, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Encapsulated pre-analytic workflows for flow-through devices, liquid chromatography and mass spectrometric analysis" was invented by Kevin Daniel Wyndham (Upton, Mass.) and Darryl W. Brousmiche (Grafton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to encapsulated reagents for sample and workflow preparation prior to chromatographic, spectroscopic or other analytical systems, use thereof, and devices comprising the same."

The patent was filed on Feb. 17, 2022, under Application No. 17/674,227.

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