ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,451, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).

"Camera holding device for automatic analysis apparatus" was invented by Manabu Ochi (Tokyo), Jun Etoh (Tokyo), Kenshiro Sakata (Tokyo), Yoichiro Suzuki (Tokyo) and Tetsuji Kawahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a camera holding device for an automatic analysis apparatus, capable of easily adjusting tip positions of pipetting nozzles having different lengths, even with the use of a single single-focus camera. Therefore, the present invention is a camera holding device for an automatic analysis apparatus,...