US Patent Issued to Hitachi on July 28 for "Preanalysis treatment method for sample, and sample pretreatment system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,534, issued on July 28, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Preanalysis treatment method for sample, and sample pretreatment system" was invented by Masashi Maruyama (Tokyo), Hirotaka Sakuma (Tokyo) and Eric Ofosu-Twum (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Objects of the disclosure are to provide a preanalysis treatment method for a sample, which can reduce mixing of a reagent into the sample, and to provide a sample pretreatment system capable of performing the preanalysis treatment method. An aspect of the present embodiment is a preanalysis treatment method for a sample, which includes a step A of mixing the sample and a reagen...