US Patent Issued to ABBOTT TOXICOLOGY on Nov. 4 for "Fluid specimen testing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,964, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ABBOTT TOXICOLOGY Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Fluid specimen testing" was invented by Nigel John Fairbank Jr. (Abingdon, Great Britain), Barry Lillis (Abingdon, Great Britain), Timothy John Abbott (Abingdon, Great Britain) and Paul Ngui (Abingdon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is technology relating to testing fluid specimens and particularly, but not exclusively, to apparatuses, devices, methods, systems, and kits for testing a fluid specimen, e.g. urine, saliva, or other body fluids, to detect specified chemical components in the specimen."

The patent was fi...