US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH on May 13 for "Sample transport device and sample transport carrier" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,057, issued on May 13, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sample transport device and sample transport carrier" was invented by Takeshi Matsuka (Tokyo) and Shigeki Yamaguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a specimen transport device and a specimen transport carrier capable of preventing shake of a specimen as compared with related art without limiting a transport path in electromagnetic transport. A specimen carrier 100 includes two or more gripping portions 101 configured to support specimen containers 150 having different diameters from different directions, and a transport surface 201 on which th...