ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,930, issued on March 24, was assigned to Abram Scientific Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Fluid property measurement devices and methods" was invented by Ramkumar Abhishek (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are devices for measuring, at one or more time points, one or more properties or changes in properties of a fluid sample. The devices may comprise a chamber defining an internal volume of the device suitable for receiving and retaining the fluid sample; a plurality of layers, the plurality comprising at least a bottom layer below the chamber and at least a substrate layer above the chamber, w...