ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,031, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automatic analyzer" was invented by Koki Yokoyama (Tokyo), Takenori Okusa (Tokyo) and Shugo Okabe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an automatic analyzer which smoothly discards a used reaction container while preventing space restrictions. The automatic analyzer in this invention includes a housing portion which houses a used container; a hollow discarding cylinder which guides the container to the housing portion in a vertical direction; a container gripping mechanism which grips the container by moving a plurality of gripping pieces close to ...