US Patent Issued to Sony Group on March 4 for "Particle extraction apparatus and particle extraction method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,747, issued on March 4, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Particle extraction apparatus and particle extraction method" was invented by Tatsuo Shimizu (Chiba, Japan), Kazuya Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yu Hirono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is microparticle extraction technology capable of stably extracting only a target microparticle at high speed from a sheath flow flowing through a flow path.A particle extraction apparatus includes: a first extraction unit for extracting, from a whole sample containing a target particle, an extraction sample containing the target particle without performing abort pro...