US Patent Issued to bioMerieux on July 21 for "Assay devices and methods of manufacture" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,006, issued on July 21, was assigned to bioMerieux Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Assay devices and methods of manufacture" was invented by Aaron Wernerehl (Salt Lake City), Jonathan A. Bruns (Salt Lake City), Jonathan B. Derrick (Draper, Utah), Taylor S. Zimmerman (West Valley City, Utah) and David E. Jones (Layton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for self-contained nucleic acid preparation, amplification, and analysis."

The patent was filed on Dec. 22, 2022, under Application No. 18/145,225.

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