US Patent Issued to Abbott Laboratories on Aug. 11 for "Methods for detecting assay interferents and increasing dynamic range" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,519, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Ill.).

"Methods for detecting assay interferents and increasing dynamic range" was invented by Mark R. Pope (Abbott Park, Ill.), Stefan J. Hershberger (Abbott Park, Ill.), Qiaoqiao Ruan (Abbott Park, Ill.), Kerry M. Swift (Abbott Park, Ill.), Sergey Y. Tetin (Abbott Park, Ill.), Patrick Macdonald (Abbott Park, Ill.) and Richard A. Haack (Abbott Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides kits and methods for detecting a substance that interferes with detection of an analyte in a sample and for expanding the dynamic range and reducing the h...