ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,578, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Chromatographic reader devices for biodetection" was invented by Antonia E. Schaefer (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Nicholas T. Gabriel (Grand Rapids, Minn.), Samuel J. Fahey (Woodbury, Minn.), Adam C. Nyland (St. Paul, Minn.), Thaine W. Fuller (Lakeland, Minn.), John M. Kruse (Minneapolis), Nicholas G. Amell (Burnsville, Minn.), Glendon D. Kappel (Minneapolis) and Patrick A. Mach (Shorewood, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile computing device includes camera hardware configured to capture image data associated with an output signal area of a b...