US Patent Issued to Clinical Reference Laboratory on April 8 for "Device and method for saliva-based analyte testing" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,371, issued on April 8, was assigned to Clinical Reference Laboratory Inc. (Lenexa, Kan.).

"Device and method for saliva-based analyte testing" was invented by Serhat Pala (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-chamber saliva-collection device is configured to segregate a saliva sample into at least two aliquots, each of the at least two aliquots being contained within a distinct chamber of the multi-chamber device, wherein the multi-chamber device is useful for performing an instant analyte test and a subsequent DNA confirmation to validate the identity of the tested individual. Related methods for using the device to obt...