ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,963, issued on April 21, was assigned to Radiometer Medical ApS (Bronshoj, Denmark).

"Blood analyser with out-of-focus image plane analysis and related methods" was invented by Thomas Steen Hansen (Bronshoj, Denmark), Ida Hollesen (Bronshoj, Denmark), Heine Hansen (Bronshoj, Denmark), Peter Emil Larsen (Bronshoj, Denmark) and Thomas Jonasson Bjarang (Bronshoj, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood analyser and related methods, in particular a method of analysing a blood sample is disclosed. The blood analyser comprises a memory, an interface, and one or more processors. The blood analyser is configured to obtain image data ...