US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH on Feb. 10 for "Phosphor, light source using same, biochemical analysis device, and method for producing phosphor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,837, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Phosphor, light source using same, biochemical analysis device, and method for producing phosphor" was invented by Masaaki Komatsu (Tokyo), Shin Imamura (Tokyo), Yoshifumi Sekiguchi (Tokyo), Takahiro Ando (Tokyo) and Eiichiro Takada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to increase the amount of near-infrared light emitted by a phosphor excited by near-ultraviolet light to blue light. The present invention relates to a phosphor containing gallium oxide Ga2O3 as the base composition, one or two elements selected from Cr an...