ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,614, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Beckman Coulter Biotechnology (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"Device for mounting optical element and sample processing instrument" was invented by Jingzhang Wu (Suzhou, China), Wenlei Fang (Suzhou, China) and Jianhua Wang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a device for mounting an optical element and a sample processing instrument including the device for mounting an optical element. The device for mounting the optical element includes: a frame; a mount fitted in the frame in a translatable but non-rotatable manner and having a mounting portion ...