ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,480, issued on July 21, was assigned to THINKCYTE K.K. (Tokyo).
"Flow cell of flow cytometer and cleaning method of flow cell of flow cytometer" was invented by Yoko Kawamura (Tokyo), Keiji Nakagawa (Tokyo) and Keisuke Toda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow cell of the flow cytometer of the present invention includes: a sample flow path through which a sample fluid containing a sample flows; and a sample fluid supply portion which communicates with an upstream end of the sample flow path in the sample fluid flow direction and supplies the sample fluid to the sample flow path, wherein the sample fluid supply portion include...