ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,133, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).
"Liquid dispensing device" was invented by Hidetoshi Sugiyama (Tokyo), Shigeki Matsubara (Tokyo), Toshinari Sakurai (Tokyo), Takayuki Obara (Tokyo) and Ryosuke Kawachi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Means for determining whether or not a reagent necessary for a chemical reaction is normally discharged is provided for a liquid dispensing device that dispenses the reagent for the reaction. A liquid dispensing device as such means includes a temperature controller that controls a temperature of a reaction position to any appropriate temperature and a tempera...