US Patent Issued to Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments on March 17 for "Systems and methods for scientific instrument utilization tracking" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,773, issued on March 17, was assigned to Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments LLC (Madison, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for scientific instrument utilization tracking" was invented by Stephen Carlson (Houston), Antoine Uzzeni (Escondido, Calif.), Elizabeth Harchick (Del Mar, Calif.), Christopher Barnard (Rushden, Great Britain), Landon Vaughn (La Jolla, Calif.) and Andrew Lechner (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are scientific instrument utilization tracking systems, as well as related methods, computing devices, and computer-readable media. For example, in some embodiments, a method of tracking utilization...