US Patent Issued to Hitachi High-Tech on Nov. 25 for "Specimen transport system and specimen transport method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,964, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).

"Specimen transport system and specimen transport method" was invented by Daigo Shishido (Tokyo) and Kuniaki Onizawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a specimen transport system and a specimen transport method that support a transport method using an electromagnetic actuator and can transport a specimen at higher speed and more stably as compared to the related art.A plurality of detection points each configured by a magnetic pole 207 and detecting a position of a magnetic body 203, and a plurality of transport paths provided above the pluralit...