ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,520, issued on July 29, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Method, device and system for determining the concentration of analytes in a sample" was invented by Mohiudeen Azhar (Bangalore, India), Kalpesh Mehta (Singapore), Ragavendar Ms (Flanders, N.J.), Sudipa Galgalkar (Bangalore, India) and Ishita Chakraborty (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, device and a system of determining a concentration of one or more analytes in a sample is disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, the method includes introducing the sample through a channel. The method further includes illumina...