ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,935, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automatic analyzer" was invented by Hiroki Fujita (Tokyo) and Teruhiro Yamano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an automatic analysis device capable of replenishing consumables without loss of a specimen and without stopping analysis. The state of an automatic analysis device 100 includes a replenishment prohibition state in which replenishment of consumables (reaction vessel 8, specimen dispensing tip 10a and external reagent vessels 21a, 21b, 21c) is prohibited, and a replenishment permission state in which replenishment of consumables is perm...