US Patent Issued to Avails Medical on Aug. 5 for "Apparatus, systems, and methods for quantifying infectious agents" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,373, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Avails Medical Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Apparatus, systems, and methods for quantifying infectious agents" was invented by Nitin K. Rajan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Oren S. Knopfmacher (San Francisco) and Meike Herget (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods, devices, and systems for determining the concentration of infectious agent in a target sample are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for determining the concentration of an infectious agent of an unknown strain can include diluting aliquots of a target sample comprising the infectious agent by different diluti...