Patents by Inventor Mari Asami

Mari Asami 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).

  • Patent number: 11275085
    Abstract: A problem of the present invention is to provide an immunochromatographic test strip avoiding agglutination of colloidal gold while red blood cells in whole blood are agglutinated and then separated and removed in the case of using polybrene as a hemagglutinating agent and the colloidal gold conjugates as a detection reagent, and to provide immunochromatography using the test strip. To solve the problem, the present inventors reviewed the composition of the existing reagent itself from a completely different viewpoint rather than the selection of type or amount of polyanions, and as a result of extensive study on each element, the inventors surprisingly found that agglutination of colloidal gold may be suppressed by using a particular additive without neutralization by polyanions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SEKISUI MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keigo Kohno, Mayumi Yoshida, Mitsuaki Yamamoto, Shinya Yokokawa, Marie Asami
  • Publication number: 20200081002
    Abstract: A problem of the present invention is to provide an immunochromatographic test strip avoiding agglutination of colloidal gold while red blood cells in whole blood are agglutinated and then separated and removed in the case of using polybrene as a hemagglutinating agent and the colloidal gold conjugates as a detection reagent, and to provide immunochromatography using the test strip. To solve the problem, the present inventors reviewed the composition of the existing reagent itself from a completely different viewpoint rather than the selection of type or amount of polyanions, and as a result of extensive study on each element, the inventors surprisingly found that agglutination of colloidal gold may be suppressed by using a particular additive without neutralization by polyanions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: SEKISUI MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keigo KOHNO, Mayumi YOSHIDA, Mitsuaki YAMAMOTO, Shinya YOKOKAWA, Marie ASAMI
  • Patent number: 10422798
    Abstract: A problem of the present invention is to provide an immunochromatographic test strip avoiding agglutination of colloidal gold while red blood cells in whole blood are agglutinated and then separated and removed in the case of using polybrene as a hemagglutinating agent and the colloidal gold conjugates as a detection reagent, and to provide immunochromatography using the test strip. To solve the problem, the present inventors reviewed the composition of the existing reagent itself from a completely different viewpoint rather than the selection of type or amount of polyanions, and as a result of extensive study on each element, the inventors surprisingly found that agglutination of colloidal gold may be suppressed by using a particular additive without neutralization by polyanions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SEKISUI MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keigo Kohno, Mayumi Yoshida, Mitsuaki Yamamoto, Shinya Yokokawa, Marie Asami
  • Publication number: 20170370926
    Abstract: A problem of the present invention is to provide an immunochromatographic test strip avoiding agglutination of colloidal gold while red blood cells in whole blood are agglutinated and then separated and removed in the case of using polybrene as a hemagglutinating agent and the colloidal gold conjugates as a detection reagent, and to provide immunochromatography using the test strip. To solve the problem, the present inventors reviewed the composition of the existing reagent itself from a completely different viewpoint rather than the selection of type or amount of polyanions, and as a result of extensive study on each element, the inventors surprisingly found that agglutination of colloidal gold may be suppressed by using a particular additive without neutralization by polyanions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: SEKISUI MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keigo KOHNO, Mayumi YOSHIDA, Mitsuaki YAMAMOTO, Shinya YOKOKAWA, Marie ASAMI
  • Patent number: 9384744
    Abstract: An audio signal coding device divides a frequency spectrum obtained from an input digital signal to a plurality of bands, scales and quantizes divided frequency spectra based on a scalefactor of each of the bands and a common scale which is common to the plurality of bands, and codes quantized frequency spectra. The audio signal coding device includes a band number determination unit configured to calculate a number of coding bands for coding the quantized frequency spectra, and a common scale estimation unit configured to estimate the common scale in accordance with the number of coding bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Socionext Inc.
    Inventors: Mari Asami, Tomoya Fujita, Jun Ono, Shusaku Ito, Yoshiteru Tsuchinaga, Miyuki Shirakawa, Sosaku Moriki
  • Patent number: 9224401
    Abstract: An audio signal encoding device includes: a window determination unit for determining the type of window of each channel; a correction unit for correcting the number of available bits; and a quantization unit for quantizing the audio signal of each channel sequentially so that the number of bits is equal to or less than the corrected number of available bits while adding the number of bits left unused, and the correction unit includes: a use rate history calculation unit for calculating a bit use rate in quantization of each type of window; and a corrected bit number calculation unit for correcting the number of available bits so that the rate of used bits to the number of available bits of each channel on the assumption that quantization is performed with the calculated bit use rate in quantization approaches the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Tomoya Fujita, Mari Asami, Jun Ono
  • Publication number: 20130034233
    Abstract: An audio signal encoding device includes: a window determination unit for determining the type of window of each channel; a correction unit for correcting the number of available bits; and a quantization unit for quantizing the audio signal of each channel sequentially so that the number of bits is equal to or less than the corrected number of available bits while adding the number of bits left unused, and the correction unit includes: a use rate history calculation unit for calculating a bit use rate in quantization of each type of window; and a corrected bit number calculation unit for correcting the number of available bits so that the rate of used bits to the number of available bits of each channel on the assumption that quantization is performed with the calculated bit use rate in quantization approaches the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoya Fujita, Mari Asami, Jun Ono