US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics on June 17 for "Predictive quality control apparatus and methods in diagnostic testing systems" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,257, issued on June 17, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Predictive quality control apparatus and methods in diagnostic testing systems" was invented by Michael Heydlauf (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Predictive quality control apparatus and methods for diagnostic testing systems may include a decision module that continually receives and correlates related data along with quality control results. The related data may include, but not be limited to, one or more of the number and type of tests previously performed by a diagnostic analyzer, analyzer temperature, vibration level, humidi...