US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on July 14 for "Analysis system, analysis device, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,971, issued on July 14, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Analysis system, analysis device, and control method" was invented by Keijiro Suzuki (Kyoto, Japan) and Mika Sato (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking device locks the sample tray to the mounting unit at a position where none of the plurality of sample containers on the sample tray can be replaced. The locking device locks the sample tray during an operation period from the start of a measurement operation on the sample tray to measure samples in the plurality of sample containers until the end of the measurement operation. The information proce...