ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,363, issued on May 13, was assigned to Beckman Coulter Inc. (Brea, Calif.).

"Automatically generating rules for lab instruments" was invented by Wido Menhardt (Los Gatos, Calif.), Christoph Moellers (Eichenau, Germany) and Santosh Kookal (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for automatically generating processing rules to be used for automated decision-making when operating instruments to analyze and process biological samples (e.g., for the presence, absence, or concentration of analytes). For example, some automatically generated processing rules may set forth conditions and crit...