ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,873, issued on July 14, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).
"Light detection device" was invented by Ryo Imai (Tokyo) and Takashi Anazawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection device includes a flow channel array that is arranged with axes of a plurality of tubes in parallel to each other and constituting a flow channel plane. A light source emits light so that an oscillation direction of an electric field component of the light is parallel to the flow channel plane. An optical axis of the light is included in the flow channel plane, and the optical axis forms a predetermined angle Theta0 with respect t...