US Patent Issued to Shimadzu on June 3 for "Sample pretreatment device, analysis system including the device, and autosampler" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,820, issued on June 3, was assigned to Shimadzu Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Sample pretreatment device, analysis system including the device, and autosampler" was invented by Kuniaki Kanamaru (Kyoto, Japan), Akiko Bamba (Kyoto, Japan), Shunsuke Atsumi (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroaki Murakami (Kyoto, Japan) and Yosuke Iwata (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample pretreatment device of an aspect of the present invention includes a conveyance mechanism (22) including a Z-axis guide (223) that linearly moves in two axes of an X axis and a Y axis and expands/contracts in a Z-axis direction on a table (21) where a unit that performs each ...