US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on July 7 for "Flow Cytometer observation chip" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,738, issued on July 7, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Flow Cytometer observation chip" was invented by Junichi Okamoto (Shiojiri, Japan), Tatsunori Miyazawa (Shiojiri, Japan) and Keigo Yamasaki (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An observation chip 1 includes: a plurality of substrates 10 stacked in a thickness direction Z of the substrates; a first channel 25 extending along a first axis O1 along the substrates; a surrounding channel 30 surrounding the first channel all around in a cross section orthogonal to the first axis in the first channel from an end of the first channel to an overall merging point P2 ...