US Patent Issued to SYSMEX on March 18 for "Smear transporting apparatus, smear system, and smear preparing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,446, issued on March 18, was assigned to SYSMEX Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Smear transporting apparatus, smear system, and smear preparing apparatus" was invented by Takayuki Nakajima (Kobe, Japan), Tetsuya Oda (Kobe, Japan), Hiromi Onomichi (Kobe, Japan), Kentaro Tsurumi (Kobe, Japan) and Seiya Shinabe (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smear system includes smear preparing apparatus that prepares a smear slide and a smear transporting apparatus that transports the smear slide to a smear-image capture apparatus. The smear preparing apparatus includes: a smear preparation part that smears a sample on a slide; and a smear arran...