US Patent Issued to Abbott Diagnostics Scarborough on Sept. 9 for "Sample preparation device and methods for using same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,448, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Abbott Diagnostics Scarborough Inc. (Scarborough, Maine).

"Sample preparation device and methods for using same" was invented by Austin M. Derfus (Solano Beach, Calif.), Karthikeyan Kumaravadivelu (San Diego), Neil Quitoviera (Temecula, Calif.), Adrian P. Crute (San Diego), Timothy L Higby (Temecula, Calif.), Richard B. Roth (San Diego), Aric Joneja (San Diego) and Torsten Gliewe (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include sample preparation cartridges including a cylindrical structure and one or more covers. The cylindrical structure further includes a ...