US Patent Issued to University Public Corporation Osaka on July 21 for "Method for detecting analyte and system for detecting analyte" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,544, issued on July 21, was assigned to University Public Corporation Osaka (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for detecting analyte and system for detecting analyte" was invented by Takuya Iida (Sakai, Japan), Shiho Tokonami (Sakai, Japan) and Ikuhiko Nakase (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting an analyte includes first to third steps. The first step is distributing a sample containing a bead modified with a host molecule that is specifically bound to the analyte in a microchannel using a syringe pump. The second step is irradiating the sample with non-resonant light that is light outside a wavelength range of el...