ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,185, issued on March 3, was assigned to SEKISUI MEDICAL Co. LTD. (Chuo-ku, Japan).

"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 method for accurately measuring coagulation time of blood samples showing various coagulation reactions. The method for measuring blood coagulation time includes measuring coagulation reaction of a sample prepared by mixing a subject specimen and a coagulation time measurement reagent; calculating weighted average time of a calculation target area of a waveform related to coagulation velocity from the resulting measure...