US Patent Issued to RION on May 12 for "Particle counter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,056, issued on May 12, was assigned to RION Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Particle counter" was invented by Daisuke Shinozaki (Kokubunji, Japan), Daisuke Sakaue (Kokubunji, Japan), Moe Susaki (Kokubunji, Japan) and Tomonobu Matsuda (Kokubunji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particle counter is configured to count particles contained in a sample fluid flowing through a flow passage by using light with which the flow passage is irradiated. The particle counter includes: a multi-flow cell having a plurality of the flow passages; a path adjuster configured to adjust a position of an optical path of the light with respect to the multi-flow ce...