ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,339, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sony Corp. (Tokyo).
"Microparticle sorting device, cell therapeutic agent manufacturing device, microparticle sorting method and program" was invented by Tatsumi Ito (Kanagawa, Japan), Gakuji Hashimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuya Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirotaka Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasunobu Kato (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technology for preparing a mixture including multiple types of microparticles in accordance with a predetermined ratio. The present technology provides a microparticle sorting device (100) including a control unit (103) comprising...