US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH on June 9 for "Capillary-array-electrophoresis device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,621, issued on June 9, 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 arraying laser-irradiation portions of a plurality of capillaries on the same array plane, simultaneous irradiation of the capillaries with a laser beam incident from the side is enabled by filling the capillaries with a separation medium having a low refractive index of n3greater than1.36 and by setting n1=1.00, n2=1.46, R/rgreater than5.9, and triangleZless than equal to9 micro metre, wherein a dista...