US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Oct. 7 for "Microchip, sample sorting kit, and microparticle sorting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,082, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Microchip, sample sorting kit, and microparticle sorting device" was invented by Naohisa Sakamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsumi Ito (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinji Tashiro (Tokyo), Nobuhiko Nishiki (Kanagawa, Japan), Naohide Miyamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Kentaro Kuriyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuya Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoichi Katsumoto (Tokyo) and Atsushi Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a microchip that is easily handled.Provided is a microchip having a plate shape and including: a sample liquid inlet into which a sample liquid is introduced; a main...