ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,854, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Ancera Inc. (Branford, Conn.).
"Systems, devices and methods for determining most probable number in biological sample analysis" was invented by Arjun Ganesan (Newington, Conn.) and John C. Voyta (Berlin, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems, devices and methods for increasing the accuracy of an MPN, using assay instrumentation. For example, such embodiments can be accomplished by pre-loading the assays system with standard curves generated from measurements made with dilutions of known levels of pathogens. When such an approach is used, for...