ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,967, issued on March 31, was assigned to DAI NIPPON TORYO Co. LTD (Osaka, Japan) and SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method for detecting particulate substance using immunochromatography, and kit for same" was invented by Yuta Miyazawa (Utsunomiya, Japan), Daigou Mizoguchi (Nasushiobara, Japan), Hirotaka Fujimoto (Kyoto, Japan), Makoto Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan) and Taka-Aki Sato (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for detecting a particulate substance by immunochromatography, the particulate substance including, on its surface, a plurality of substances to be bound containing a first ...