ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,453, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automatic analysis apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Ishida (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Yamashita (Tokyo), Hisashi Yabutani (Tokyo) and Koshin Hamasaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object of the invention is to provide an automatic analysis apparatus which is capable of both sterilizing a reagent and suppressing property variations in the reagent. Provided is an automatic analysis apparatus including a reagent vessel which holds a reagent; a suction nozzle which sucks the reagent; an analysis unit which executes an analysis operation by adding a reagent suck...