US Patent Issued to National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology on Oct. 6 for "Fluorescence detecting device, and fluorescence detecting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,261, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (Chiba, Japan).

"Fluorescence detecting device, and fluorescence detecting method" was invented by Ryuji Igarashi (Chiba, Japan), Tamami Yanagi (Chiba, Japan) and Kiichi Kaminaga (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technique of identifying fluorescence emitted from a measurement target, with a simpler device configuration. A fluorescence detection device includes: a generating section that generates pulsed laser light which causes spin polarization and spin relaxation in a phosphor that emits fluorescence whose intensit...