US Patent Issued to ARKRAY on June 9 for "Test strip holder and test strip discharging mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,386, issued on June 9, was assigned to ARKRAY Inc. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Test strip holder and test strip discharging mechanism" was invented by Noriaki Furusato (Kyoto, Japan) and Yusuke Wada (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test strip holder includes: a holding member at which at least a portion of a lower side of an inner periphery is a cylindrical surface having a cylindrical shape, and at whose interior a test strip is held, and at which a direction of an imaginary central axis of the cylindrical surface is a horizontal direction or a direction inclined with respect to a vertical direction; an opening portion provided in...