ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,762, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to RAYSEARCH LABORATORIES AB (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Method and system for evaluation of drug concentration in blood, plasma or serum" was invented by Hans Dahlin (Uppsala, Sweden) and Jorgen Hojdmo (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for evaluating a drug concentration in body fluid samples, wherein the body fluid samples are blood, plasma or serum, the method including the steps of: preparing at least one body fluid sample including a solved target drug by removing unsolved components from the body fluid sample; performing absorption spectrophotometric analyzes on ...