ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,944, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to First Light Diagnostics Inc. (Chelmsford, Mass.).
"Detection and analysis of cells" was invented by Don Straus (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a version of fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) in which all the steps are performed at physiological temperatures, i.e., body temperature, to detect and identify pathogenic bacteria in clinical samples. Methods of the invention use species-specific fluorescent probes to label clinically important infectious bacteria. A sample such as a urine sample is loaded into a cartridge, fluorescently labeled, and image...