US Patent Issued to Sakura Finetek U.S.A. on April 22 for "Automated staining system and reaction chamber" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,970, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sakura Finetek U.S.A. Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Automated staining system and reaction chamber" was invented by Xuan S. Bui (Torrance, Calif.), Anthony L. Hartman (Tucson, Ariz.), Toshiyuki Fujimaki (Nagano, Japan), Shinji Tokudaiji (Nagano, Japan), Yoshitake Okabe (Higashichikuma-gun, Japan) and Yoshitada Mizusawa (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including a reagent cartridge and a reaction chamber, the reagent cartridge having a reagent capsule removably positioned therein for dispensing of a reagent onto the reaction chamber. A system including a linearly translatab...