ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,381, issued on May 6, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fluorescence observation apparatus, fluorescence observation system, and fluorescence observation method" was invented by Ayumu Taguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluorescence observation apparatus includes an irradiation unit that applies a plurality of kinds of excitation light of mutually different wavelengths to a plurality of spatially or temporally different positions in a biological sample that is labeled with a composite phosphor containing two or more kinds of fluorescent molecules at a predetermined composition ratio, a detection unit that detects...