ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,936, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Network-based system for the dynamic workflow management of a biological sample" was invented by Andrzej Knafel (Walchwil, Switzerland) and Joerg Haechler (Oberwil b. Zug, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analysis system for analyzing biological samples is disclosed, and which may comprise two or more analysis system components for performing an analysis. A sample workflow manager and an instrument manager coupled to the sample workflow manager may be coupled to the system components for receiving a process status from the system c...