ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,947, issued on May 13, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Biological sample analysis device" was invented by Mayu Sao (Tokyo), Hirofumi Inomata (Tokyo) and Fumiyasu Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technique capable of acquiring an analysis target region and color information without causing a decrease in extraction accuracy of the analysis target region due to erroneous extraction of a color of a colored label, measuring a solution volume of the specimen, and determining a specimen type. The biological specimen analysis device according to the present discl...