ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,122, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Sony Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fluorescence intensity correcting method, fluorescence intensity calculating method, and fluorescence intensity calculating apparatus" was invented by Yasunobu Kato (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshitsugu Sakai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluorescence intensity calculating apparatus, includes a measuring section configured to receive fluorescences generated from plural fluorescent dyes excited by radiating a light to a microparticle multiply-labeled with the plural fluorescent dyes having fluorescence wavelength bands overlapping one another by photodetectors...