ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,675, issued on May 19, was assigned to Conservation X Labs Inc (Northwest, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for determining presence and/or characteristics of target analytes in a sample" was invented by Alex Dehgan (Washington, Wash.), Paul Bunje (Los Angeles), Hallie Holmes (Seattle), David Baisch (Seattle), Cifeng Fang (Redmond, Wash.), Gareth Fotouhi (Seattle), Misa Winters (Brier, Wash.), Sam Kelly (Arlington, Virgin Islands) and Brad Zamft (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge for providing a target analyte for detection is described. One such exemplar cartridge includes a base portion including: (1) a receiving area ...