ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,262, issued on June 17, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).
"Specimen transport apparatus" was invented by Kazuma Tamura (Tokyo), Shigeki Yamaguchi (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Watanabe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide a highly reliable specimen carrier device with which it is possible to position a specimen holder in a specific place with high accuracy, thereby enabling the stable performance of a treatment. In order to achieve this purpose, the present invention provides a specimen carrier device that is equipped with: a specimen holder which retains a specimen container a...