ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,431, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to B. G. NEGEV TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS LTD., AT BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY (Beer Sheva, Israel).

"Capture flow assay device and methods" was invented by Robert Marks (Omer, Israel), Tim Axelrod (Haniel, Israel) and Ariel Kushmaro (Beer Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a device including at least a section 1, a section 2, a section 3 and a section 4 wherein section 2 is coupled to section 1, section 3 is coupled to section 2 and comprises a surface functionalized with an analyte or equivalent thereof, section 4 is coupled to section 3, and section 1, section 2, section ...