ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,810, issued on May 5, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).

"System for separating an analyte from a sample" was invented by Nils Stobener (Bremen, Germany), Johannes Schwieters (Bremen, Germany) and Andreas Hilkert (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a separator that separates an analyte from the sample, an analyser, downstream of the separator, configured to obtain measurements indicative of a quantity of the analyte in the sample. A bypass line provides a first fraction of the sample to the analyser for measurement without passing through the separator. A controller ...