ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,553, issued on April 7, was assigned to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Electronic test result determination and confirmation" was invented by Aaron Adler (Towson, Md.), Bryan Bartley (Arlington, Mass.), Mike Gavin (Princeton, N.J.), Jordan Seville (Delran, N.J.), Darby McChesney (Lawrenceville, N.J.), Frank M. LaDuca (Warrensburg, N.Y.), Jiangshan Wang (West Lafayette, Ind.), Andres Dextre (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Mohit Verma (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technology is described for a system for identifying a colorimetric test result from...