ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,428, issued on June 23, was assigned to SEKISUI MEDICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Blood coagulation time measurement method" was invented by Toshiki Kawabe (Chuo-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a blood coagulation time measurement method. In the method, reaction X(i) is acquired through smoothing and zero-point adjustment of a measured value P(i) for coagulation reaction of a blood specimen, and then an integration ratio Z(i) of the reaction X(i) is acquired. These values are used to calculate an index for coagulation time Tc calculation, and it is determined whether or not the index satisfies the criteria. The procedur...