US 12,352,769 B2
Method, system, and device for designing experimental protocol
Taichi Tomono, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to SHIMADZU CORPORATION, Kyoto (JP)
Appl. No. 18/013,411
Filed by Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 9, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/009166
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 28, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/004061, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 6, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-112661 (JP), filed on Jun. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0251832 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 8/34 (2018.01); G01N 35/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/04842 (2022.01); G06F 8/20 (2018.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01); H04L 67/50 (2022.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); H04L 41/0869 (2022.01)
CPC G01N 35/00 (2013.01) [G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 8/24 (2013.01); G06F 8/34 (2013.01); G06F 16/90344 (2019.01); H04L 67/535 (2022.05); G06F 9/5038 (2013.01); G06F 16/24568 (2019.01); H04L 41/0869 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
receiving, from a user, a graphical user interface (GUI) operation interacting with a specific application;
designing an experimental protocol in a form of an oriented graph in accordance with the received GUI operation, the experimental protocol defining a processing order of at least one experimental device including a conveyance device and an analyzer, and the experimental protocol including processing on a physical sample including at least one substance; and
controlling the at least one experimental device to automatically execute the experimental protocol,
wherein a plurality of nodes are each selectable as a vertex of the oriented graph and the plurality of nodes include a processing node corresponding to processing by an experimental device of the at least one experimental device and a conditional branch node corresponding to conditional branch processing,
wherein controlling the at least one experimental device includes:
controlling the conveyance device to move the physical sample to an experimental device corresponding to each of a plurality of pieces of processing according to an order of the plurality of pieces of processing defined in the experimental protocol; and
controlling the analyzer to analyze components included in the physical sample quantitatively or qualitatively.