US Patent Issued to NOK, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION IBARAKI UNIVERSITY on April 14 for "Leukocyte trapping apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,903, issued on April 14, was assigned to NOK Corp. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION IBARAKI UNIVERSITY (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Leukocyte trapping apparatus" was invented by Asako Nakamura (Ibaraki, Japan), Kenta Takahashi (Ibaraki, Japan) and Takayuki Komori (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A leukocyte trapping apparatus configured so: a chip having protruding parts arranged on a flat part, a blood-containing solution that enters through an inlet port is allowed to pass through the surface of the flat part and through spaces between two adjacent protruding parts in the chip and is discharged through a discharge ...