US Patent Issued to Cepheid on May 26 for "Film seal assembly and single lid assay cartridge and associated methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,269, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cepheid (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Film seal assembly and single lid assay cartridge and associated methods" was invented by Rohan Kurse (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Douglas B. Dority (Mill Valley, Calif.), Pradeep Shivalingappa Magadum (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kavya Umachandran (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Koua Vang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Film seal assemblies that seal one or more reagents within a sample cartridge, which allow for single lid cartridge designs. Such film seal assemblies can include one or more layers, a bottom-most layer that permanently seals with a sample cartridge having...