ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,131, issued on July 15, was assigned to ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS INC. (Indianapolis).

"Techniques for controlling automated analyzers using a shadow workflow engine" was invented by Alejandro Morcillo Montejo (Girona, Spain), Marco Maetzler (Belmont, Calif.) and Juan Bacardit (Santpedor, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for processing biological samples in an environment including multiple automated analyzers having multiple modules is presented. The method includes receiving data related to a plurality of orders for processing biological samples at a main workflow engine. The main workflow engin...