US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on May 19 for "Chromatographic reader devices for biodetection" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,631, issued on May 19, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Chromatographic reader devices for biodetection" was invented by Antonia E. Schaefer (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Nicholas T. Gabriel (Grand Rapids, Minn.), Samuel J. Fahey (Woodbury, Minn.), Adam C. Nyland (St. Paul, Minn.), Thaine W. Fuller (Lakeland, Minn.), John M. Kruse (Minneapolis), Nicholas G. Amell (Burnsville, Minn.), Glendon D. Kappel (Minneapolis) and Patrick A. Mach (Shorewood, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising a mobile computing device (902) physically coupled to a lightbox (904). The apparatus includes camera hardwa...