US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Sept. 8 for "Particle sorting apparatus and particle sorting method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,058, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Particle sorting apparatus and particle sorting method" was invented by Tsutomu Maruyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technology capable of stably detecting a particle velocity with high accuracy is provided.Provided is a particle sorting apparatus or the like including: an irradiation unit that includes a plurality of light sources and irradiates a particle contained in a fluid with light from the plurality of light sources; a detection unit that includes a plurality of pixels configured to detect, as an event, a luminance change in the light emi...