US Patent Issued to Agilent Technologies on Aug. 4 for "Fingerprint similarity based sample analysis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,751, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Fingerprint similarity based sample analysis" was invented by Zhi-Quan Yuan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Dong Fang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shumin Jing (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yunfei Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chen Zheng (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xinyu Guo (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Brandon Chui (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, an apparatus may include analyzing a sample, and analyzing at least one reference sample. A determination may be made as to whether the sample includes a library match score. Based on a determination ...