US Patent Issued to Hitachi High-Tech on Nov. 3 for "Electrophoresis device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,317, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrophoresis device" was invented by Shinji Takeuchi (Tokyo), Takashi Gomi (Tokyo), Motohiro Yamazaki (Tokyo), Tetsuo Tamura (Tokyo), Akiyuki Nemoto (Tokyo) and Tomonari Morioka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an electrophoresis device in which a system configuration of an autosampler is simplified, the electrophoresis device that separates a sample via electrophoresis and analyzes the sample includes: a conveyance unit that conveys a container containing the sample and a buffer solution to a target position; a contact portion with which a jig...