US Patent Issued to Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics on Jan. 13 for "Method of improving liquid sample flow in assay device" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,650, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Inc. (Raritan, N.J.).

"Method of improving liquid sample flow in assay device" was invented by Zhong Ding (Pittsford, N.Y.), Philip C. Hosimer (Rochester, N.Y.) and Edward Scalice (Penfield, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is method of improving flow of a liquid sample in an assay device, as well as a method of performing an assay on a liquid sample for the detection of one or more analytes of interest. The methods use the addition of a reagent, such as a wash reagent, to wet the fluid flow path of a sample prior to sample addition, thereby improving flo...