US Patent Issued to Avails Medical on Sept. 23 for "Apparatus, systems, and methods for preparing an output sample comprising a defined concentration of an infectious agent for downstream testing" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,343, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Avails Medical Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Apparatus, systems, and methods for preparing an output sample comprising a defined concentration of an infectious agent for downstream testing" was invented by Nitin K. Rajan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Andrew H. Theiss (Mountain View, Calif.), Oren S. Knopfmacher (San Francisco), Meike Herget (Woodside, Calif.) and Mathias Wipf (Basel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods, devices, and systems for preparing an output sample of a defined concentration are disclosed. The output sample can be used for downstream tests such as downstream...