ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,761, issued on April 8, was assigned to Shoreline Science Research Inc. (Tokyo).
"Fluorescence measuring device" was invented by Akio Shimono (Tokyo), Toshihide Hikida (Tokyo), Takahiro Goto (Tokyo), Asao Mizoguchi (Tokyo) and Kenichi Masui (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem to be Solved]Provided is a fluorescence measuring device that suppresses or eliminates fluctuations in a light source, problems of jitter associated with signal processing, and the influence of background light and performs highly sensitive and accurate quantification even when it is difficult to separate fluorescence from scattered light due to time ...