ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,847, issued on March 24, was assigned to IDEXX LABORATORIES INC (Westbrook, Maine).
"Methods, systems, and devices for electromagnetically shielded paramagnetic bead analysis" was invented by Jennifer Cote (Westbrook, Maine), Kevin Chamberland (Westbrook, Maine) and Murthy Yerramilli (Westbrook, Maine).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for analyzing a plurality of particles is disclosed. The system includes a platform structurally configured to support container, a reader, a shield, one or more processors, and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, caus...