ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,129, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc. (Indianapolis).
"Reduction of interferences in immunoassays" was invented by Johannes Polz (Murnan, Germany), Thomas Mock (Gauting, Germany), Barbara Upmeier (Iffeldorf, Germany) and Toralf Zarnt (Penzberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for determining an analyte in a sample, comprising a) contacting said sample with at least a first and a second detector compound; b) determining the amount of complexes comprising at least one detector compound; and, c) determining said analyte in a sample based on the result ...