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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 12, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shigeyuki Miyamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12M / ; C12M / ; C12Q / ; C12Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 32 ; 422 8209 ; 435 33 ; 4352861 ; 4352881 ; 4352883 ; 4352887 ;
Abstract
A biosensor for detecting the toxicity of a sample includes a solid-state area image pickup element, a culture container positioned on an upper surface of a light-receiving portion of the element, at least a bottom surface of the culture container being formed of transparent material, a cell cultured in the culture container, and culture medium for growing the cell.