US Patent Issued to Abbott Laboratories on Dec. 16 for "Direct detection of single molecules on microparticles" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,376, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Ill.).

"Direct detection of single molecules on microparticles" was invented by Qiaoqiao Ruan (Abbott Park, Ill.), Patrick J. Macdonald (Abbott Park, Ill.), Kerry M. Swift (Abbott Park, Ill.), Sergey Y. Tetin (Abbott Park, Ill.), Brenda Calfin (Abbott Park, Ill.), Zhen Lin (Abbott Park, Ill.), Richard Haack (Abbott Park, Ill.), Mark R. Pope (Abbott Park, Ill.), John Prostko (Abbott Park, Ill.), Xiaoxing Qiu (Abbott Park, Ill.) and M. Felicia Bogdan (Abbott Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides methods of analyzing an analyte of inter...