ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,866, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TIANMA JAPAN LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Fluorescence polarization immunoassay method and fluorescence polarization immunoassay device" was invented by Sho Onose (Kanagawa, Japan), Ayuko Imai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ken Sumiyoshi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A degree of polarization of second reference samples produced by adding an antibody, a tracer, and a target substance having mutually different concentrations to a first reference sample not including the target substance is corrected with a degree of polarization of the first reference sample to generate a first calibration c...