US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Sept. 8 for "Particle sorting kit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,417, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Particle sorting kit" was invented by Taiki Uno (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tatsumi Ito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a particle sorting kit including a filter unit, which has a small amount of particle loss at a connection portion between a tube through which a sample liquid flows and the filter unit and functions even at a low flow rate. The particle sorting kit includes a sample accommodation unit for accommodating a sample liquid containing particles, a sample flow path through which the sample liquid flows, a detection region in whic...