ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,255, issued on July 21, was assigned to Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Supplementing measurement results of automated analyzers" was invented by Andreas Calatzis (Munich), Felix Dross (Kerchhain, Germany), Marianne Wilmer (Root, Switzerland) and Simon John Davidson (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for supplementing measurement results of automated analyzers is presented. The system includes a computer device configured for obtaining a result of a measurement performed by an automated analyzer, the computer device and the automated analyzer being located within a privileged computer...