US Patent Issued to Showa University, Hitachi High-Tech on Feb. 10 for "Immunostaining method, sample exchange chamber, and charged particle beam apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,687, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Showa University (Tokyo) and Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).

"Immunostaining method, sample exchange chamber, and charged particle beam apparatus" was invented by Takashi Takaki (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Nagase (Tokyo), Dedong Kang (Tokyo), Kazuho Honda (Tokyo), Mari Sakaue (Tokyo) and Megumi Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to enable use of novel immunostaining for a pathological diagnosis and research, the invention provides a sample exchange chamber including: a container 2 into which a substrate on which a sample is placed can be introduced; a specific solution inlet 3, whi...