US Patent Issued to SEKISUI MEDICAL on April 8 for "Automated analysis device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,823, issued on April 8, was assigned to SEKISUI MEDICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Automated analysis device" was invented by Kyoichi Iwahashi (Tokyo), Yasuo Minami (Tokyo), Tomohide Asai (Tokyo) and Seiichiro Ishioka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an automated analysis device capable of transferring instruments to be used for an analysis process to a predetermined processing position efficiently and rapidly. In an automated analysis device of the invention, a transfer unit forming a transfer mechanism to transfer instruments to be used for analyte processing into an analyte processing space includes a holding portio...