ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,407, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Sampling device" was invented by Tatsuya Obe (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sampling needle (21) is inserted into a sample container (12) by a needle-driving mechanism (23) to collect a sample liquid from the sample container. A depth information acquirer (52) acquires insertion depth information, i.e., a piece of information concerning an insertion depth of the sampling needle into the sample container. A needle-rinsing length setter (54) sets a needle-rinsing length which is an insertion length of the sampling needle into a rinse storage tank (3...