ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,522, issued on May 12, was assigned to STRATEC SE (Birkenfeld, Germany) and Instrumentation Laboratory Co. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Instrument parameter determination based on sample tube identification" was invented by Volker von Einem (Birkenfeld, Germany), Timo Ottenstein (Birkenfeld, Germany), Jaiganesh Srinivasan (Birkenfeld, Germany), Christian Luca (Birkenfeld, Germany), Andra Petrovai (Birkenfeld, Germany), Dan-Sebastian Bacea (Birkenfeld, Germany), Nicoleta-Ligia Novacean (Birkenfeld, Germany), Demetrio Sanchez-Martinez (Bedford, Mass.), Mark Wheeler (Bedford, Mass.) and Christopher Almy Jr. (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Of...