US Patent Issued to Hitachi High-Tech on July 14 for "Nucleic acid analysis device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,030, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).

"Nucleic acid analysis device" was invented by Toshifumi Mitsuyama (Tokyo), Junji Ishizuka (Tokyo), Hitoshi Miyata (Tokyo) and Tomohiro Shoji (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a nucleic acid analysis device that, even when a plurality of flow cells is handled, does not require an increase in the required movement amount, and can be reduced in size by reducing the size of a stage mechanism. This nucleic acid analysis device is characterized by having a sample container containing a nucleic acid sample to be analyzed, an imaging ...