US Patent Issued to Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics on May 13 for "System and methods for remote assessment of a sample assay for disease diagnostics" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,251, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Inc. (Raritan, N.J.).

"System and methods for remote assessment of a sample assay for disease diagnostics" was invented by Andrew Attila Pal (San Diego), Werner Kroll (Wayland, Mass.) and Adonis Stassinopoulos (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a lateral flow assay is provided. The method includes inserting a sample cartridge (201) in a dark chamber (220) and activating a light emitter (251) in the dark chamber (220). The method includes focusing an optical coupling mechanism (115a, 115b) in an image-capturing device (100a, 100b) to ...