US Patent Issued to Sysmex on Feb. 17 for "Container transfer method and container transfer apparatus with closeable holder" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,914, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sysmex Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Container transfer method and container transfer apparatus with closeable holder" was invented by Hidetaka Hayama (Kobe, Japan), Yuichiro Ohmae (Kobe, Japan), Yuji Wakamiya (Kobe, Japan) and Tomohiro Kuroiwa (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container transfer method for transferring a container from a container holder capable of holding a plurality of containers, by using a holding section capable of performing an opening/closing operation, vertical movement, and horizontal movement. The method includes: moving the holding section downward to a position...