ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,506, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to First Light Diagnostics Inc. (Chelmsford, Mass.).
"Microbial analysis without cell purification" was invented by Don Straus (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides systems and methods for rapid automated identification of microbes and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) directly from a patient specimen, without specimen preparation. Specimens are loaded into an analytical cartridge for processing. Analytical cartridges are preloaded with species-specific labels that are used to identify and enumerate microbes in the specimen. Instruments, such as analyzers...