US Patent Issued to DIAGNOSTIC CONSULTING NETWORK on Aug. 11 for "Methods and devices for lateral flow analyte assays" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,975, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to DIAGNOSTIC CONSULTING NETWORK LLC (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Methods and devices for lateral flow analyte assays" was invented by Brian Taylor Daugherty (Carlsbad, Calif.) and William Patrick Coffey (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lateral flow analyte test systems having a defined geometry that positions a light source at a position relative to a test strip so that a captured image of the test strip is not convoluted with specular reflection, and that permits the light source to illuminate the desired portion of the test strip without the creation of a shadow in the image by the opti...