ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,105, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (Burlington, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for single molecule quantification" was invented by Hywel Bowden Jones (Seattle) and Andrea Lynn McEvoy (Greenbrae, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for quantifying labels on a substrate is performed by an electronic device with one or more processors and memory. The method includes obtaining digital data corresponding to a multi-dimensional measurement over the substrate; identifying a first set of sub-portions of the digital data; and, for a respective sub-portion of the first set of sub-portions...