US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on Nov. 3 for "Water sampling method, water sampling device, and water sampling system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,246, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Musashino, Japan).

"Water sampling method, water sampling device, and water sampling system" was invented by Yuki Miyauchi (Musashino, Japan), Tomoyuki Taguchi (Musashino, Japan) and Hiroyuki Katayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water sampling method including: a detection step of detecting an index value related to an amount of microorganisms in a liquid flowing through a flow channel; a determination step of determining whether the index value detected in the detection step has reached a threshold value; and a water sampling step of, when determining in the ...