US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH on July 8 for "Automatic analysis device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,771, issued on July 8, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Automatic analysis device" was invented by Koki Yokoyama (Tokyo), Takenori Okusa (Tokyo) and Nobuyuki Isoshima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an automatic analysis device that can suppress the occurrence of condensation in a reagent cool box and can immediately drain the condensation water generated by introducing outside air. In an automatic analysis device including a reagent cool box that stores a plurality of reagent vessels while keeping the reagent vessels cool, the reagent cool box includes a drain for discharging the condensation water ...