US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Sept. 15 for "Cell picking device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,551, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell picking device includes a supporter that supports a rack having a plurality of holes for holding a plurality of pipette tips, a sucker used to suck a sample, a driver that moves the sucker in an up-and-down direction and moves the sucker and the supporter relative to each other in a horizontal direction, and a controller that controls the driver such that, any pipette tip out of the plurality of pipette tips held by the rac...