ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,124, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund (New Orleans).
"Apparatus, systems and methods for in vitro screening of complex biological fluids" was invented by Damir Khismatullin (New Orleans) and Nithya Kasireddy (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to technology that provides a method for the assessment of the polymerization of a sample, e.g., whole blood or blood plasma coagulation, by a non-contact acoustic tweezing device via the application of a sweeping frequency to the levitating sample and the corresponding assessmen...