ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,309, issued on March 25, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Microparticle measurement spectrometer, microparticle measurement device using the microparticle measurement spectrometer, and method for calibrating microparticle measurement photoelectric conversion system" was invented by Masaaki Hara (Tokyo), Tomoyuki Umetsu (Tokyo) and Yoshiki Okamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microparticle measurement spectrometer includes a spectroscopic element that disperses light emitted from microparticles flowing through a flow path, and a photoelectric conversion array that has a plurality of light receiving elements havin...