ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,512, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).
"Nucleic acid analyzer" was invented by Tatsuya Yamashita (Tokyo), Tomohiro Shoji (Tokyo) and Kazutoshi Onuki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide a nucleic acid analyzer which prevents an increase in reagent consumption caused by a branched channel structure and on which multiple kinds of substrates having different channel numbers can be mounted. The nucleic acid analyzer according to the present invention is provided with a first substrate that comprises an inlet section connected to an introduction path, a ...