ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,118, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).

"Automated analysis support robot, and automated analysis system" was invented by Hikaru Takizawa (Tokyo) and Kenta Imai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This automated analysis support robot for carrying out an inspection of an analysis module that automatically analyzes a biological sample comprises a vehicle body, a camera mounted on the vehicle body, a communication device which communicates directly or indirectly with the analysis module, and a computer for controlling the vehicle body and the camera, wherein the computer: controls the vehicle body to mo...