US Patent Issued to QuantGene on Sept. 9 for "Sample tube rack based transfer, management and tracking" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,651, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QuantGene Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Sample tube rack based transfer, management and tracking" was invented by Johannes Bhakdi (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatus for the tracking and managing of biological samples. A provider may check-in or register a patient at a provider facility. A sample tube may be registered to the patient, and a biological sample may be collected. The provider aggregates a plurality of sample tubes into cells of a rack. The provider then captures an image of the rack. A computer vision operation may be performed to isolate and...