ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,455, issued on April 22, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical measurement device and optical measurement system" was invented by Tsutomu Maruyama (Tokyo) and Masaaki Hara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an optical measurement device including a spectral optical system that disperses fluorescence emitted from a biological specimen, and an image sensor that receives the fluorescence dispersed by the spectral optical system and generates fluorescence information. The image sensor is divided into a plurality of regions that receive different wavelength components of the fluorescence and generate fluor...