ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,106, issued on May 20, was assigned to OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Detection device" was invented by Fumio Nagai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to providing a detection device that has high robustness against a temperature change and a temporal change and that is capable of detecting a substance to be detected with high accuracy. The detection device of the present invention is a detection device that detects presence or an amount of a substance to be detected using an enhanced electric field based on surface plasmon resonance, the detection device having a light projecting unit for i...