US Patent Issued to Evident on April 14 for "Image capturing device for observing a sample housed in a container to which identification information is attached, image capturing system, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,936, issued on April 14, was assigned to Evident Corp. (Kamiina-Gun, Japan).

"Image capturing device for observing a sample housed in a container to which identification information is attached, image capturing system, and control method" was invented by Tadashi Hirata (Nagano, Japan) and Koh Mohri (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing device for observing a sample housed in a container includes: an image capturing unit; a light guide unit that guides light from an identification surface to the image capturing unit, the identification surface being a surface of the container different from a bottom surface...