Patents by Inventor Tomo Kitahashi

Tomo Kitahashi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Integration system and integration method
    Patent number: 11837331
    Abstract: An integration system comprising a biological image acquiring device which acquires, from a sample including biological particles which are a detection target, a biological image which is an image of the biological particles; a nucleotide sequence information acquiring device which acquires nucleotide sequence information of the biological particles; and an integration device which associates and registers the biological image and the nucleotide sequence information acquired from the same type of biological particles in an integrated database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, TechnoSuruga Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomo Kitahashi, Miyuki Nishijima, Masafumi Shimotashiro
  • Method of pretreating sample including biological particles, method of acquiring image of biological particles, apparatus for pretreating sample including biological particles, and biological particle image-acquiring apparatus
    Patent number: 11182893
    Abstract: A method of pretreating a sample including biological particles, the method including a step of acquiring a fraction (1b) which passes through a sieve (A) having meshes of 250 to 1000 ?m and does not pass through a sieve (B) having meshes of 32 to 63 ?m by sieving a sample including biological particles as a detection target, and a step of adding a colloidal solution having a density of 1.10 to 2.45 g/cm3 to the fraction (1b), subjecting the resultant solution to centrifugation, and acquiring a supernatant fraction (S0) after the centrifugation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
    Inventors: Tomo Kitahashi, Hiromi Watanabe, Masashi Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
  • INTEGRATION SYSTEM AND INTEGRATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20210295953
    Abstract: An integration system comprising a biological image acquiring device which acquires, from a sample including biological particles which are a detection target, a biological image which is an image of the biological particles; a nucleotide sequence information acquiring device which acquires nucleotide sequence information of the biological particles; and an integration device which associates and registers the biological image and the nucleotide sequence information acquired from the same type of biological particles in an integrated database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Tomo Kitahashi, Miyuki Nishijima, Masafumi Shimotashiro
  • METHOD OF PRETREATING SAMPLE INCLUDING BIOLOGICAL PARTICLES, METHOD OF ACQUIRING IMAGE OF BIOLOGICAL PARTICLES, APPARATUS FOR PRETREATING SAMPLE INCLUDING BIOLOGICAL PARTICLES, AND BIOLOGICAL PARTICLE IMAGE-ACQUIRING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20190172204
    Abstract: A method of pretreating a sample including biological particles, the method including a step of acquiring a fraction (1b) which passes through a sieve (A) having meshes of 250 to 1000 ?m and does not pass through a sieve (B) having meshes of 32 to 63 ?m by sieving a sample including biological particles as a detection target, and a step of adding a colloidal solution having a density of 1.10 to 2.45 g/cm3 to the fraction (1b), subjecting the resultant solution to centrifugation, and acquiring a supernatant fraction (S0) after the centrifugation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Tomo Kitahashi, Hiromi Watanabe, Masashi Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Yamamoto