US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on July 14 for "Liquid injection device for optically detecting a vial, aspirating a liquid in the vial with a syringe, and dispensing the liquid from the syringe" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,032, issued on July 14, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Liquid injection device for optically detecting a vial, aspirating a liquid in the vial with a syringe, and dispensing the liquid from the syringe" was invented by Daiki Fukushima (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a liquid injection device capable of accurately detecting whether a vial is mounted on the mounting portion with an inexpensive configuration. A sensor has a light-emitting part and a light-receiving part and is configured to emit light from the light-emitting part to pass through at least a part of a cylindrical cap attached to t...