US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on March 24 for "Detection optical system, detection device, flow cytometer, and imaging cytometer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,848, issued on March 24, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Detection optical system, detection device, flow cytometer, and imaging cytometer" was invented by Takeshi Hatakeyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Shingo Imanishi (Tokyo) and Yoshiki Okamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection optical system includes an objective lens, a first relay lens, a second relay lens, and an imaging lens, which are arranged in order from a side of a specimen along an optical path of light from the specimen illuminated by a light source. A primary imaging plane is provided on the optical path between the first relay lens and the second re...