US Patent Issued to Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics on June 23 for "Smear apparatus, sample loading mechanism and method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,344, issued on June 23, was assigned to Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Smear apparatus, sample loading mechanism and method" was invented by Yinming Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Jin Teng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample loading mechanism and method applicable to a smear apparatus, and a smear apparatus are provided. The sample loading mechanism includes: a blood dripping needle, a transfer device and a control device. The blood dripping needle is connected with the transfer device which is configured to drive the blood dripping needle to move relative to a slide. When the bl...