US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics on May 27 for "Methods for detecting hook effect(s) associated with anaylte(s) of interest during or resulting from the conductance of diagnostic assay(s)" (Indiana, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,626, issued on May 27, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Methods for detecting hook effect(s) associated with anaylte(s) of interest during or resulting from the conductance of diagnostic assay(s)" was invented by Julie Chaney (Elkhart, Ind.), Jon Stradinger (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Aaron Kauffmann (Elkhart, Ind.), Jeffrey Mayfield (South Bend, Ind.) and Chris Zimmerle (Goshen, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for the hook effect detection associated with analytes of interest in the conductance of one or more diagnostic assays, including, without limitation, immunoassays."

The ...