US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY, SHIMADZU on June 10 for "Stirring device and preprocessing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,851, issued on June 10, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY (Kobe, Japan) and SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Stirring device and preprocessing device" was invented by Aya Torai (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshihiro Matsumoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Tomohisa Hasunuma (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a stirring device 11 performs processing of stirring a mixed solution in a test tube S, a holding mechanism 13 and a movement mechanism 14 are operated so that the test tube S is moved to a position of B2. Then, in the test tube S, the cells attached to the inner surface of the test tube S and the liquid are sep...