ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,602, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SYSMEX Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Urine analysis system, image capturing apparatus, urine analysis method" was invented by Masakazu Fukuda (Kobe, Japan), Masamichi Tanaka (Kobe, Japan) and Yousuke Tanaka (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A urine analysis system according to an embodiment includes: a testing apparatus that measures particles included in a urine sample according to a flow cytometry method; an image capturing apparatus that captures images of particles in the urine sample to acquire particle images; and a management apparatus that receives a measurement result obtained by th...