US Patent Issued to Abbott Laboratories on Sept. 23 for "Devices and methods for sample analysis" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,279, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Ill.).

"Devices and methods for sample analysis" was invented by Mark A. Hayden (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Jeffrey B. Huff (Lincolnshire, Ill.), Nicholas John Collier (Burwell, Great Britain) and Karen Xin Zhou Yu (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital microfluidic and analyte detection device includes a first substrate and a second substrate aligned generally parallel to each other with a gap defined therebetween in side view. At least one of the first and second substrates has an electrode array configured to generate electrical actuati...