ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,074, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ACE BioAnalysis Inc. (Fukushima, Japan).
"Scanning unit, system, and method" was invented by Kiyohito Shimura (Fukushima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is to provide a scanning unit that enables simple and highly accurate detection of a sample in a capillary. A scanning unit according to the present disclosure is a scanning unit that moves in the axial direction of a capillary and includes an optical system unit having an optical system and a restriction unit that restricts the capillary to a predetermined position. The optical system unit includes a first optical sy...