US Patent Issued to Abbott Rapid Diagnostics International UnLtd. on Nov. 3 for "Machine readable diagnostic test devices and methods and apparatus to make and/or process the same" (German, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,350, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Abbott Rapid Diagnostics International UnLtd. Co. (Dublin).

"Machine readable diagnostic test devices and methods and apparatus to make and/or process the same" was invented by Thanh Tu Hellmich-Duong (Jena, Germany), Thomas Uhlig (Jena, Germany), Carsten Buenning (Gross-Rohrheim, Germany), Thomas Ullrich (Jena, Germany), Stefan Kugler (Jena, Germany), Heidi Klemm (Jena, Germany) and Chris Smit (Berkshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to make and/or process a diagnostic test device are disclosed. An example apparatus include...