US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics on May 13 for "Methods and apparatus for protecting patient information during characterization of a specimen in an automated diagnostic analysis system" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,172, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Methods and apparatus for protecting patient information during characterization of a specimen in an automated diagnostic analysis system" was invented by Venkatesh NarasimhaMurthy (Hillsborough, N.J.), Vivek Singh (Princeton, N.J.), Yao-Jen Chang (Princeton, N.J.), Benjamin S. Pollack (Jersey City, N.J.), Ankur Kapoor (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Rayal Raj Prasad Nalam Venkat (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of characterizing a specimen and specimen container to be analyzed in an automated diagnostic analysis system. The ...