ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,081, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ARKRAY Inc. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method of measuring stable hemoglobin A1c and measurement device therefor" was invented by Naotsugu Onuma (Kyoto, Japan) and Tomoyuki Matsuda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of measuring stable hemoglobin A1c by a hemoglobin separation analysis method based on cation exchange, the method comprising: obtaining an analysis signal from a blood specimen to be measured by the separation analysis method; determining a C value, which is a peak value of a stable hemoglobin A1c peak, and an X value, which is a peak value of a specific peak appearing betwe...