ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,962, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Detection method and detection device" was invented by Satoshi Arimoto (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target substance detection method includes forming a complex by causing a target substance and a dielectric particle to bind to each other, the dielectric particle being modified with a substance having a property of specifically binding to the target substance; separating the complex and an unbound particle from each other in a liquid by dielectrophoresis, the unbound particle being a dielectric particle not c...