US Patent Issued to Assaya on May 12 for "Sterilization of testing equipment" (Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,990, issued on May 12, was assigned to Assaya LLC (Lakeside, Mont.).

"Sterilization of testing equipment" was invented by Clas Sivertsen (Lilburn, Ga.), Tom Sivertsen (Kristiansund, Norway), Roy Larsen (Kristiansund, Norway) and Sturla Sivertsen (Kristiansund, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a processor and memory coupled to the processor. The system also includes a lateral flow assay ("LFA") strip reader coupled to the processor for transmitting an LFA strip image to the processor. The processor initiates a sterilization process when the LFA strip image includes a visual feature indicating a sterilization tri...