ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,900, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SYSMEX Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Blood analyzer, blood analyzing method, and program" was invented by Osamu Kikuchi (Kobe, Japan), Takahito Mihara (Kobe, Japan), Yuji Masuda (Kobe, Japan), Atsushi Shirakami (Kobe, Japan), Takuma Watanabe (Kobe, Japan), Daigo Fukuma (Kobe, Japan) and Masaharu Shibata (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood analyzer according to one or more embodiments may include: a specimen preparation part that prepares a measurement specimen by mixing a reagent into a blood preparation; a measurement part that measures the measurement specimen; a measurement mode select...