ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,448, issued on July 29, was assigned to IDEXX LABORATORIES INC. (Westbrook, Maine).
"Quality control for point-of-care diagnostic systems" was invented by Jeremy Hammond (Standish, Maine), Timothy Butcher (Windham, Maine), Jui Ming Lin (Falmouth, Maine) and James Russell (North Yarmouth, Maine).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In aspects, a system includes an on-board storage containing a synthetic quality control material, a plurality of sub-systems having a plurality of operating parameters and including a material analyzer, a database storing quality control results that include results of the material analyzer analyzing the syntheti...