US Patent Issued to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY on Feb. 24 for "Point of care device for early and rapid disease diagnosis" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,597, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland).

"Point of care device for early and rapid disease diagnosis" was invented by Robert Deissler (Fairview Park, Ohio), Susann Brady-Kalnay (Cleveland) and Robert Brown (Solon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Early stage, rapid, low-cost detection of disease components in a biological sample is critically important. A point of care device can include a collection region and can be used to hold a sample that is combined with a fluorescent dye and a plurality of magnetic particles such that disease components in the sample are tagged with the fluoresce...