ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,171, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Alfresa Pharma Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Analysis device and analysis method" was invented by Kazuya Nishimura (Osaka, Japan), Yosuke Doi (Osaka, Japan), Yuko Fukumoto (Osaka, Japan) and Shiqin Wu (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an analysis device, an analysis method, and the like that predict a concentration even for a sample having high concentration that can be outside a measurement range as it is, using an absorbance measurement result in a reaction course at the time of measurement of a test liquid containing an immunological reagent and the sample, and determine an op...