ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,935, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Device and method for mixing magnetic bead reagent and sample analysis apparatus" was invented by Wenbo Xu (Shenzhen, China), Yanwen Weng (Shenzhen, China) and Jun Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixing device for a magnetic bead reagent includes a magnetic member, a container storage mechanism, and a drive mechanism. The container storage mechanism includes a mounting part for mounting a magnetic bead liquid container storing a magnetic bead reagent, and the mounting part corresponds to the magnetic me...