ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,527, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CONSERVATION X LABS INC. (Washington).
"Systems and methods using hand-held devices for detecting a target analyte loaded on a cartridge" was invented by Alex Dehgan (Washington, Wash.), Paul Bunje (Studio City, Calif.), Hallie Holmes (Seattle), David Baisch (Seattle), Cifeng Fang (Redmond, Wash.), Gareth Fotouhi (Seattle) and Misa Winters (Brier, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods relating thereto for detecting target analytes, using hand-held detection devices and compression mechanisms, are described. An exemplar hand-held detection device includes a cartridge inlet a...