US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH on Sept. 23 for "Pretreatment method of an automatic analyzer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,446, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Pretreatment method of an automatic analyzer" was invented by Makoto Nogami (Tokyo), Shinya Matsuoka (Tokyo), Daisuke Ebihara (Tokyo) and Yuichiro Hashimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pretreatment method of an automatic analyzer, in which pretreatments of a plurality of substances to be measured can be performed by a series of treatments using a plurality of magnetic beads that can bind to the plurality of substances to be measured, is achieved. In the pretreatment method of an automatic analyzer, a magnetic bead is added to a sample containing a...