US Patent Issued to University of Washington on Feb. 3 for "Test strips for communicating assay data to a touchscreen, and systems for analyzing assay data received at a touchscreen" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,346, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Test strips for communicating assay data to a touchscreen, and systems for analyzing assay data received at a touchscreen" was invented by Anandghan Waghmare (Seattle), Shwetak N. Patel (Seattle), Farshid Salemi Parizi (Seattle) and Jason Hoffman (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this disclosure describe a test strip that may include a sample input, assay circuitry, signaling circuitry, impedance circuitry, and/or energy harvesting circuitry. The sample input may be configured to receive a sample, such as a fluid sample. The assay circuitry of...