ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,259, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to FUJITA MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Biological information detection device and biological information detection method" was invented by Hironobu Maeda (Tokyo) and Yoshihiro Yamaguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a biological information detection device including: a laser oscillator that oscillates a pulsed laser beam oscillated at a suitable wavelength associated with a measuring target substance; an irradiation mechanism that emits the pulsed laser beam to a liquid biological object inside which the measuring target substance exists; a light receiv...