ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,081, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Microchip electrophoresis device" was invented by Akira Harada (Kyoto, Japan), Kota Ogino (Kyoto, Japan) and Hidesato Kumagai (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample setting section in which at least one sample to be subjected to electrophoresis analysis and at least one standard sample are set, and a controller. The controller includes a standard data storage memory that stores standard data obtained by performing electrophoresis analysis of a standard sample under a predetermined condition, and a chip determination part configured to perform electro...