ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,734, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Defense Diagnostic Inc. (Plano, Texas).
"Analyte detection apparatus" was invented by Ahmad Hussain (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Jeremy Ridley (Philadelphia), Chris Kolb (Philadelphia), Justin Bechstein (Philadelphia), Ayan Bhandari (Redwood City, Calif.), Stefan Grady Foulstone (San Francisco) and Rose Olivieri (Philadelphia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analyte detection apparatus is disclosed and configured for testing a substance for the presence or absence of at least one target analyte. In at least one embodiment, a housing provides a mixing chamber and a testing chamber in selective flu...