US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on April 29 for "Autosampler structure for determining a vertical/horizontal distance between a needle tip and a vial top surface" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,348, issued on April 29, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Autosampler structure for determining a vertical/horizontal distance between a needle tip and a vial top surface" was invented by Iori Otomo (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autosampler includes an imaging portion configured to move in a horizontal plane direction and a vertical direction while maintaining a positional relationship with a needle. The imaging portion is configured to image a tip of the needle and top surfaces of from a position obliquely above the tip of the needle so that the tip of the needle, a top surface of a vial directly belo...