US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Aug. 4 for "Cell picking device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,110, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Cell picking device" was invented by Mika Okada (Kyoto, Japan) and Akari Takeda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suction arm advances in an axial direction of a pipette tip such that an end of the pipette tip comes into contact with a bottom surface of a sample container while the pipette tip attached to a suction arm is tilted with respect to a vertical direction. Next, the suction arm is moved such that the end of the pipette tip scans the bottom surface of the sample container in a horizontal direction toward a predetermined position. Subsequently,...