US Patent Issued to Abbott Molecular on March 4 for "Methods and systems of multi-assay processing and analysis" (Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,131, issued on March 4, was assigned to Abbott Molecular Inc. (Des Plaines, Ill.).

"Methods and systems of multi-assay processing and analysis" was invented by Frank Pawlowski (Amherst, N.H.), Joseph P. Skinner (Libertyville, Ill.), Jack Kessler (Southborough, Mass.) and Sonal Sadaria Nana (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The instant disclosure provides methods of multi-assay processing and multi-assay analysis. Such multi-assay processing and analysis pertain to automated detection of target nucleic acids, e.g., as performed in the clinical setting for diagnostic purposes. Also provided are common assay timing protocols deriv...