US Patent Issued to Hitachi High-Tech on March 3 for "Automatic analyzer and insertion method of reaction container" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,189, issued on March 3, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).

"Automatic analyzer and insertion method of reaction container" was invented by Norihiro Hayashida (Tokyo), Yuya Matsuoka (Tokyo) and Eiichiro Takada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an automatic analyzer in which a reaction container can be smoothly inserted into a hole of an incubator. An automatic analyzer 100 analyzing a sample includes: an incubator 105 having a hole 202 into which a reaction container 114 containing a mixture of the sample and a reagent is to be inserted; and a transfer unit 109 configured to transfer an unused reaction con...