ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,854, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automatic analyzer" was invented by Yuka Miyake (Tokyo), Koshin Hamasaki (Tokyo) and Eiichiro Takada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic analyzer performs a dispensing operation with high throughput while reducing a risk of carry-over of a reagent that includes first and second dispensing operations. The second dispensing operation includes a first procedure of aspirating a sample accommodated by a dispensing nozzle, a second procedure of discharging the aspirated sample to a first reaction container, a third procedure in which a cleaning tank cl...