ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,523, issued on July 15, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Systems, apparatus, and methods of analyzing specimens" was invented by Muhammad Ahmed (Yonkers, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analyzing a specimen includes detecting a specimen integrity error in the specimen; capturing an image of the specimen; sending the image of the specimen to a customer support center at a remote location; analyzing the image of the specimen at the customer support center; and determining a cause of the specimen integrity error in response to analyzing the image of the specimen. Diagnostic analyzer...