US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on July 29 for "Methods and kits for the diagnosis of influenza" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,525, issued on July 29, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Methods and kits for the diagnosis of influenza" was invented by Robert Campbell (Bullock, N.C.), Kevin G. Dolan (Holly Springs, N.C.), Eric Fallows (Apex, N.C.), Randal A. Hoke (Cary, N.C.), Ross Jacobson (Hillsborough, N.C.), J. Bruce Pitner (Durham, N.C.), Glenn P. Vonk (Fuquay Varina, N.C.), Rajashaker Kache (Cary, N.C.), Upma Gulati (Cary, N.C.), Herman D. Himel IV (Cary, N.C.) and Rosemary B. Evans-Storms (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provided herein relate to combined assays. In some embodiments, an assay f...