ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,287, issued on July 28, was assigned to Instrumentation Laboratory Co. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Disposable hemolysis sensor" was invented by Brian Joseph Bosy (Hull, Mass.) and Josef Kerimo (Concord, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for measuring hemolysis in a cartridge based automated blood analyzer is described. The apparatus allows hemolysis testing to be performed on a sample which is presented as a whole blood sample for other testing by the cartridge based automated blood analyzer. A disposable module is configured for optically analyzing one or more plasma analytes in a flow cell while red blood cells are acoustica...