ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,292, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HIRATA Corp. (Kumamoto, Japan).
"Sample producing apparatus" was invented by Seigo Murakami (Kumamoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample producing apparatus produces an observation sample by placing an observation target object on a surface of a liquid pool on an optically transparent plate and then removing the liquid pool. The sample producing apparatus comprises a holding means for holding the plate, and a tilting means for tilting the plate such that the liquid pool on the plate is flowed. According to the sample producing apparatus, the working efficiency when producing the obser...