US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Oct. 7 for "High dynamic range assays in hazardous contaminant testing" (Utah, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,158, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"High dynamic range assays in hazardous contaminant testing" was invented by Ray Isaacson (Layton, Utah), Brian Patrick Dwyer (San Diego) and Austin Jason Mckinnon (Herriman, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to lateral flow assays having a number of different detection zones tuned to extend the dynamic range of the assay in indicating concentration of a hazardous contaminant in a test sample. Some aspects relate to assay reader devices configured with instructions to generate a result representing the concentrati...