ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,468, issued on June 30, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Capillary-array-electrophoresis device" was invented by Takashi Anazawa (Tokyo), Ryoji Inaba (Tokyo) and Shuhei Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When laser-irradiation portions of N capillaries with capillary numbers n=1, 2.., and N are arranged on a same plane, a laser-irradiation intensity of each capillary is denoted by L(n), and an output intensity of each capillary by a computer when a light emitting substance having an equal concentration exists inside each capillary is denoted by H(n), an absolute value of an average value of a second deriv...