ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,791, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NIIGATA UNIVERSITY (Niigata, Japan) and SYSMEX Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Method, analysis system, analyzer, and computer program for analyzing cause of prolonging coagulation time" was invented by Takeshi Suzuki (Kobe, Japan), Masato Matsuda (Niigata, Japan), Masato Moriyama (Niigata, Japan), Sho Shinohara (Kobe, Japan), Keisuke Kitano (Kobe, Japan), Tsukasa Suetake (Kobe, Japan) and Yutaka Komiyama (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for analyzing a cause of prolonging coagulation time of a blood specimen includes: adding a calcium solution to a first sample resulting from a f...