ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,321, issued on April 29, was assigned to Truvian Sciences Inc. (San Diego).

"Optical multianalyte detection" was invented by Dena Marrinucci (San Diego), Nicholas Haase (San Diego), Ryan Morgan (San Diego), Michael Adams (San Diego), Derek Arndt (San Diego), Graeme Cross (San Diego), Jeffrey A. Hawkins (San Diego), David Hecht (San Diego), Johnny Steve Rachele (San Diego), Roger Taylor (San Diego), Scott Thompson (San Diego), Kyoung-Ho Kim (San Diego), David Luke McDonald (San Diego), Michael White (San Diego) and Kevin Yang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems, devices, and methods for performing opti...