ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,155, issued on May 12, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Automatic analyzer" was invented by Tsukasa Suenari (Tokyo), Takenori Okusa (Tokyo) and Taichiro Yamashita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an automatic analyzer capable of reliably closing an openable lid provided in an opening for accessing a region covered by a cover. An automatic analyzer includes an incubator cover disposed to cover a preprocessing region provided on an operation surface on a housing, an openable lid disposed to openably cover an opening portion provided in the incubator cover in order to access the inside from the outside o...