US Patent Issued to HIRATA, ODC MANAGEMENT on March 24 for "Observation holder, observation apparatus, observation chip, and method of manufacturing observation chip" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,101, issued on March 24, was assigned to HIRATA Corp. (Kumamoto, Japan) and ODC MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Observation holder, observation apparatus, observation chip, and method of manufacturing observation chip" was invented by Tomoko Tsuchiya (Tokyo), Shiro Kanegasaki (Tokyo), Seigo Murakami (Kumamoto, Japan) and Kenji Morita (Kumamoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an observation holder, including an accommodation unit configured to accommodate an observation target, and an observation unit formed below the accommodation unit, wherein an observation target accommodated in the accommodat...