ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,834, issued on March 4, was assigned to Sartorius BioAnalytical Instruments Inc. (Bohemia, N.Y.).
"Articles and methods for performing assays" was invented by Tae Kang (Campbell, Calif.), Stewart Holloway (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael Youngquist (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instruments, components thereof, consumables therefor, and associated methods are generally provided. Advantageously, some instruments described herein may be capable of performing and/or configured to perform assays at a rate that is faster and/or requires less input from an operator than assays performed by other methods. Some methods may c...