ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,476, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Method for detecting and reporting an operation error in an in-vitro diagnostic system and an in-vitro diagnostic system" was invented by Christopher Espy (Mannheim, Germany) and Andre Pristat-Gupta (Mannheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure refers to a method for detecting and reporting an operation error in an in-vitro diagnostic system (1) for determining a sample of a bodily fluid, comprising: providing a plurality of sample vessels (2) each containing a sample of a bodily fluid; and providing a plurality of fu...