ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,351, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automatic analyzer" was invented by Yuri Kajihara (Tokyo), So Oguchi (Tokyo), Taichiro Yamashita (Tokyo), Yoshiaki Sugimura (Tokyo) and Aiko Miyakawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an automatic analyzer with improved workability when a flow cell is loaded and unloaded. The automatic analyzer includes: a photomultiplier tube; a board disposed vertically below the photomultiplier tube; and a flow cell disposed vertically below the board. A lower surface of the board has a protrusion portion and/or a recess portion, and an upper surface of the ...