ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,466, issued on May 26, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automatic analyzer" was invented by Yoshiki Muramatsu (Tokyo) and Tetsuji Kawahara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The automatic analyzer includes a probe exchangeably attached to an arm section of a dispensing mechanism, a tube which is connected to the probe and forms a dispensing channel, a syringe which is connected to the tube and discharges and/or aspirates system water contained in the dispensing channel, and a controller that causes the syringe to aspirate the system water from the dispensing channel such that the system water is removed from the pr...