ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,154, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to BIO-RAD LABORATORIES INC..

"System and method for spot checking small out-of-control conditions in a clinical diagnostic process" was invented by Lakshmi Samyukta Kuchipudi (Addison, Texas), Curtis Parvin (Mckinney, Texas) and John Yundt-Pacheco (Fairview, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a system and method to automatically spot-check for small out-of-control conditions of a clinical diagnostic process. The expected number of unreliable results evaluated since the last good quality control event is estimated by estimating the magnitude of the out-of-control condition, constru...