ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,356, issued on May 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Biological specimen separation instrument" was invented by Hirotaka Watano (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a biological specimen separation instrument with which a biological specimen can be stably separated into a predetermined component. The biological specimen separation instrument includes an accommodation instrument (1) that accommodates a collected biological specimen, a filter (128) for filtering a predetermined component in the biological specimen, and a holding instrument (100) that accommodates the filtered predetermine...