US Patent Issued to Medica on April 14 for "Automated microscopic cell analysis" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,902, issued on April 14, was assigned to Medica Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Automated microscopic cell analysis" was invented by Ronald Jones (Newton, N.H.), Adrian Gropper (Watertown, Mass.), Robert Hagopian (Belmont, Mass.), Charles Rogers (Halifax, Mass.), Thomas Vitella (Sandown, N.H.), Donald Barry Jr. (Groton, Mass.), Dirk Osterloh (Arlington, Mass.), Chen Yi (Boxborough, Mass.) and Tyler Cote (Chelmsford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes single-use test cartridges, cell analyzer apparatus, and methods for automatically performing microscopic cell analysis tasks, such as counting blood cells in biolo...