US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Feb. 24 for "Cell collecting device and cell collecting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,708, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Cell collecting device and cell collecting method" was invented by Yamato Maeda (Kyoto, Japan), Akari Takeda (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshitake Yamamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshitaka Noda (Kyoto, Japan) and Takashi Inoue (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell collecting device include a pipette tip that sucks substances in a cell culture container, a first valve connected to the pipette tip through a first flow path, a first pump connected to the first valve through a second flow path, and a second pump connected to the first valve through a third flow path. In a...