US Patent Issued to Waters Technologies on April 7 for "Workflows for preparing and analyzing clinical samples" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,493, issued on April 7, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Workflows for preparing and analyzing clinical samples" was invented by Thomas S. McDonald (Holden, Mass.), Kevin Wyndham (Upton, Mass.), Johannes Vissers (Breda, Netherlands) and Edouard S. P. Bouvier (Stow, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and workflows for processing and analyzing clinical samples (e.g., nasal swabs, throat swabs, plasma samples, urine, etc.) In general, the methods and workflows involve the detection of an infectious state and are improved over contemporary methods due to increased th...