US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, KYORIN PHARMACEUTICAL on July 15 for "PCR reaction container" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,994, issued on July 15, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo) and KYORIN PHARMACEUTICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"PCR reaction container" was invented by Hidenori Nagai (Ikeda, Japan), Shunsuke Furutani (Ikeda, Japan) and Hideyasu Kubo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PCR vessel having: a substrate, a flow channel formed in the substrate, a pair of filters provided at both ends of the flow channel, a pair of air communication ports communicating with the flow channel through the filters, a thermal cycle region formed between the pair of filters in the flow channel, and a sample injec...