ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,638, issued on May 27, was assigned to SEKISUI MEDICAL Co. LTD. (Chuo-ku, Japan) and PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (Kashihara, Japan).
"Method for analyzing blood coagulation characteristics of blood specimen" was invented by Toshiki Kawabe (Chuo-ku, Japan), Yukio Oda (Chuo-ku, Japan), Midori Shima (Kashihara, Japan), Keiji Nogami (Kashihara, Japan) and Kenichi Ogiwara (Kashihara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a method for analyzing coagulation characteristics of a blood specimen. To provide a method for analyzing a blood specimen, including: acquiring a waveform related to a coagulation rate...