ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,793, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Analyzer and analysis method" was invented by Takahiro Ando (Tokyo) and Sakuichiro Adachi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an analyzer that analyzes a specimen with high accuracy and an analysis method for analyzing a specimen with high accuracy. The analyzer according to the present disclosure include a first reaction vessel which contains a reagent, a second reaction vessel which contains a specimen and the reagent, a detector which detects optical characteristics of the first reaction vessel and optical characteristics of the second reaction vessel, a...