US Patent Issued to Cepheid on May 19 for "Universal assay cartridge and methods of use" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,680, issued on May 19, was assigned to Cepheid (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Universal assay cartridge and methods of use" was invented by Harika Nanduri (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Andrew Weitsman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jennifer Lynn Glass (San Jose, Calif.), Michelle Wei (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Tina Noyes (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sample cartridge, valve assembly and processing methods for providing mechanical lysis, chemical lysis or both for a given fluid sample are provided herein. Such systems can include a sample processing cartridge having a valve assembly configured for transport of the processing of fluid sample withi...