US Patent Issued to PROVIGATE on June 17 for "Sensor chip, sensing apparatus, cover, body fluid collection device, and sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,208, issued on June 17, was assigned to PROVIGATE INC. (Tokyo).

"Sensor chip, sensing apparatus, cover, body fluid collection device, and sensor" was invented by Yuuya Miyazawa (Tokyo), Narushi Ito (Tokyo), Norikazu Katayama (Tokyo), Mitsumi Nishi (Tokyo) and Yoshiyuki Yanagimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor chip (30), to be brought close to an organism to collect a body fluid in order to chemically measure the body fluid, is configured such that a surface (100) to be brought close to the organism is curved."

The patent was filed on March 29, 2019, under Application No. 17/041,937.

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