ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,081, issued on May 12, was assigned to In Diagnostics Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Single-use clinical spectrophotometer" was invented by Octavian Florescu (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The single-use disposable spectrophotometer described in this disclosure can measure one or more blood chemistry analytes from a drop of whole blood. A passive filtration system takes whole blood and delivers plasma along with a dissolved reporter molecule to one or more spectrophotometers which can operate with narrow band optical spectrum centered on an optical detection frequency. The spectrophotometer detects the changes in absorpti...