ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,652, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Priming method of microparticle sorting microchip, microparticle sorting method, microparticle sorting device, and program" was invented by Naohisa Sakamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Masahiro Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichi Kai (Tokyo), Shinji Tashiro (Tokyo), Kazuya Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshifumi Machida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a method of efficiently performing priming on a microparticle sorting microchip.The present technology provides a priming method of a microparticle sorting microchip provided with a sample liquid fl...