ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,679, issued on March 24, was assigned to ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for assessing bays on diagnostic devices" was invented by Tyler David Jensen (Carlsbad, Calif.), Michael Nguyen (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Dustin K. Harshman (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems and apparatuses in which a diagnostic instrument analyzes data collected over time, and based on that information, disables a bay, suggests a bay, puts a bay on standby or combinations thereof. In some embodiments, the method, system and apparatus allows the diagnostic instrument to have high...