ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,981, issued on March 31, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automatic analyzer" was invented by Noritaka Minami (Tokyo) and Yoichiro Suzuki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic analyzer includes an installation plate on which a system reagent container is installed, a liquid aspiration unit that aspirates a reagent from the system reagent container, a support unit to which the liquid aspiration unit is coupled and which can be moved between a reagent container exchange position and a reagent aspiration position, and a lift mechanism that allows the support unit to perform a lift operation. The support un...