ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,680, issued on April 29, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Specimen carrier and method for manufacturing specimen carrier" was invented by Akira Tashiro (Hamamatsu, Japan), Masahiro Kotani (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Takayuki Ohmura (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample support body includes: an insulating substrate having a measurement region formed with a plurality of through holes; a frame formed with an opening part opening to a first face and a second face to correspond to the measurement region, and formed on the first surface such that the opening part overlaps the measurement region w...