Patent Document ID: 4631687
Application ID: 06548493
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for analyzing a sample in order to produce data corresponding to a set of properties of at least one of the individual components thereof, the properties being selected such that said set of properties is adequate for identifying at least one of said components, said method comprising the steps of: subjecting said sample to a plurality of separation processes, the separation processes being adapted to produce a corresponding plurality of different distributions of the sample; determining said set of properties of the sample, to produce a corresponding sample set, at each of a plurality of positions along each of said distributions; determining one or more basic sets for each separation process, such that all sample sets corresponding to the distribution produced by that process can be represented by the basic sets for that process; and comparing the basic sets for the different processes with one another to thereby identify one or more common basic sets such that all of the sample sets can berepresented by the common basic sets, whereby said common basic sets are estimates of said set of properties for individual components.