ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,912, issued on March 24, was assigned to TUBITAK (Ankara, Turkey).
"Immunochromatographic test strip" was invented by Tarik Ozturk (Kocaeli, Turkey) and Mediha Esra Yayla (Kocaeli, Turkey).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an immunochromatographic test strip (1) which can be encoded such that the test result cannot be understood by the user who performs the test. The test strip (1) subject of invention, includes at least one sample pad (2) in which the samples are loaded, at least one conjugate pad (3) having analyte-specific labeled antibodies present in the sample, at least one membrane (4) wherein the...