ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,445, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automated analyzer" was invented by Sunao Funakoshi (Tokyo), Takenori Okusa (Tokyo), Nobuyuki Isoshima (Tokyo) and Koki Yokoyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a reagent cooler reduced in size as compared with that in the related art by reducing a thickness of a heat insulation material of the reagent cooler, and an automated analyzer including the reagent cooler. In the reagent cooler of the automated analyzer, a vacuum heat insulation material is disposed in a periphery (on a side surface, or/and upper and lower portions) of a cooling jack...