ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,555, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sysmex Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Transport method, control method, and analysis system" was invented by Atsushi Kumagai (Kobe, Japan), Daigo Fukuma (Kobe, Japan), Keisuke Kuwano (Kobe, Japan), Toru Uemura (Kobe, Japan) and Koyo Hiroyama (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a transport method to be performed in an analysis system configured to transport a specimen to an analyzer configured to analyze an analyte contained in the specimen, the transport method comprising: cooling and preserving, in a cooling-and-preserving part, a quality control specimen containing an analyte havi...