ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,585, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automatic analyzer" was invented by Nozomi Sagae (Tokyo), Emiko Ushiku (Tokyo) and Kenichi Takahashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic analyzer that sets thresholds of measurement items and remaining reagent amounts. A reagent is dispensed, and checked whether a dead volume is set. If the dead volume is not set, and if the amount of a reagent in a reagent bottle is equal to or larger than a dead volume default value, the process proceeds to the measurement of the next specimen, and if the amount is smaller than the default value, the use of the...