ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,539, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"Quantification method and labeling method" was invented by Manami Masubuchi (Hachioji, Japan), Nobuhisa Harada (Koganei, Japan) and Masaru Takahashi (Kokubunji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantification method in the present invention is a quantification method for quantifying three or more kinds of quantification-target substances contained in a plurality of samples collected from one specimen, and includes a quantification step of quantifying the three or more kinds of quantification-target substances in each of the plurality of samples on the basis...