ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,260, issued on June 17, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automatic analyzer" was invented by Yuichi Iwase (Tokyo), Kohei Nonaka (Tokyo) and Tetsuji Kawahara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The fluid temperature within piping of a sample dispensing system is stabilized in order to maintain stable dispensing performance with high precision in an automatic analyzer. A controller executes a first operation sequence to operate the sample dispensing system in a standby state continued until the sample is transported to the sample dispensing position, and executes a second operation sequence to operate the sample disp...