ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,018, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Israel).

"Systems and methods for pooling samples for high-throughput analysis" was invented by Matthew Frankel (Libertyville, Ill.), Patrick Fritchie (Southlake, Texas), Gregg Williams (Villa Park, Ill.) and Bradley Weston (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for onboard pooling of samples for high-throughput analysis of the samples. Including a sample loading area for receiving a plurality of sample tubes, and a sample transport configured to continually transport individual vessels along a transport path from a sample dispense position ...