ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,504, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ARKRAY Inc. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Measurement method and measurement apparatus" was invented by Ayano Nakatani (Kyoto, Japan) and Takeshi Shimizu (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Using a biosensor including a flow path into which blood containing a target is introduced, an upstream electrode pair disposed in the flow path and having a reagent reacting with the target disposed on either of the electrodes, and a downstream electrode pair disposed at a downstream side of the flow path; the method includes a first detection step of detecting a first introduction of blood as far as the upstre...