ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,266, issued on April 21, was assigned to JEOL Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Sample cartridge holding apparatus" was invented by Norimasa Sakuta (Tokyo), Tomohisa Fukuda (Tokyo), Osamu Suzuki (Tokyo) and Masateru Shibata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample cartridge has a sample stand an inclining mechanism. A sample cartridge holding apparatus has a housing part which is inclined. When the sample cartridge is inserted into the housing part, a contact portion contacts a lever of the inclining mechanism, and the sample stand is inclined by a predetermined angle. With this process, an appropriate inclination angle is realized for the sampl...