ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,199, issued on May 20, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).
"Specimen processing system" was invented by Taro Umeki (Tokyo) and Shigeru Yano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a specimen processing system which can contribute to space saving. The specimen processing system includes a put-in module which puts a specimen on a put-in tray in a holder, a housing module which houses the specimen from the holder in a housing tray, and a stock module which stocks the holder, in which an empty holder which is generated because the specimen is housed is directly conveyed to the put-in module without being conveyed t...