ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,748, issued on July 8, was assigned to FOSS Analytical A/S (Hilleroed, Denmark).
"Lateral flow assay device and analyser" was invented by Rasmus Vistisen (Hilleroed, Denmark) and Jakob Frederik Schoendorff Engell (Hilleroed, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprises: a receptacle having a bottom wall portion closing a first end of the receptacle to delimit an inner space and having a receptacle opening at an opposite second end; a compartment for holding a lateral flow assay test strip, the compartment having a lower portion located closer to the first end than to the second end; a passageway in fluid communication wit...