ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,292, issued on June 24, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automatic analyzer" was invented by Nobuya Fukuda (Tokyo), Kazuhiro Noda (Tokyo) and Yukinori Sakashita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a reagent cooler that prevents occurrence of condensation and further uniforms a temperature in the cooler with low power consumption and a simple structure. The reagent cooler includes a refrigerant pipe that is disposed inside an outer wall of the reagent cooler 103 and circulates a refrigerant inside the outer wall; a blowing pipe 109 that is disposed inside the outer wall and guides outside air existing ou...