ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,976, issued on March 31, was assigned to ACCESS MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTD. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Detection method using both fluorescence and chemiluminescence labels" was invented by Haode Chen (Shanghai), Heng Wu (Shanghai), Hong Tan (San Jose, Calif.) and Robert F. Zuk (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to an immunoassay method for detecting an analyte in a liquid sample; and provides accuracy and reproducibility for both high concentration and low concentration samples. The method uses both fluorescence marker and chemiluminescence marker, and reads both fluorescence signal and chemilu...