ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,176, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc. (Indianapolis).
"Methods for reducing interferences" was invented by Barbara Upmeier (Iffeldorf, Germany), Toralf Zarnt (Penzberg, Germany) and Johannes Polz (Murnau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining an analyte in a sample suspected to comprise the analyte, includes a) contacting with said sample at least a first and a second capture compound for the analyte; b) contacting the capture compounds contacted with the sample with a specifier; c) determining the amount of complexes comprising the specifier and a capture compound; and d)...