US Patent Issued to GEN-PROBE on Oct. 21 for "Apparatus for incubating receptacles and detecting optical signals emitted by the contents of the receptacles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,608, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GEN-PROBE Inc. (San Diego).

"Apparatus for incubating receptacles and detecting optical signals emitted by the contents of the receptacles" was invented by David Buse (San Diego), David Howard Combs (San Diego), Norbert D. Hagen (Carlsbad, Calif.), David Opalsky (San Diego), Bruce Richardson (Los Gatos, Calif.), Anita Prasad (Los Gatos, Calif.), Keith Moravick (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Tyler Moore (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for incubating the contents of a plurality of receptacles and for detecting a signal emitted by the contents of each of the receptacle incl...