ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,429, issued on June 23, was assigned to C A Casyso GmbH (Basel, Switzerland).

"Cartridge device for a measuring system for measuring viscoelastic characteristics of a sample liquid, a corresponding measuring system, and a corresponding method" was invented by Axel Schubert (Munich), Jose J. Romero-Galeano (Markt Schwaben, Germany) and Max Kessler (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a cartridge device for a measuring system for measuring viscoelastic characteristics of a sample liquid, in particular a blood sample, comprising a cartridge body having at least one measurement cavity formed therein...