ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,469, issued on July 21, was assigned to Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Smear preparation machine and control method therefor" was invented by Shaokui Weng (Shenzhen, China) and Jieshan He (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Smear preparation machine and control method therefor. The smear preparation machine includes a slide loading mechanism for loading slide, a sample applying mechanism for applying blood sample, a slide smearing mechanism for smearing blood sample to prepare smear slide, a staining mechanism and a slide transferring mechanism. The staining mechanism includes a reag...