US Patent Issued to Abbott Point of Care on Oct. 21 for "Devices, systems, and methods for performing optical assays" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,470, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Abbott Point of Care Inc. (Princeton, N.J.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for performing optical assays" was invented by Michael Louie Low (Kendall Park, N.J.), Barry Bass (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Sergey Gershtein (Skillman, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This present invention relates generally to devices, systems, and methods for performing optical and electrochemical assays and, more particularly, to devices and systems having universal channel circuitry configured to perform optical and electrochemical assays, and methods of performing the optical and electrochemical assays using the ...