ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,128, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automatic analyzer" was invented by Hitomi Tsuji (Tokyo) and Yuya Matsuoka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an automatic analyzer capable of appropriately controlling most of the temperature of an incubator even when local temperature fluctuation occurs.An automatic analyzer for analyzing a specimen includes an incubator for holding a plurality of vessels that store a mixed liquid of the specimen and a reagent, a heat source for heating or cooling the incubator, a plurality of temperature sensors provided at different positions of the incubator...