ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,555, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Automatic analyzer" was invented by Chikook Ha (Tokyo) and Youichi Aruga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to an automatic analyzer in which information necessary for reagent management is displayed without a decrease in the number of reagents capable of being displayed on the same screen and browsability of reagent information is improved. A display area is compressed by limitation of the number of display items per reagent and the amount of text to be displayed on a first screen, and reagent management items capable of being di...