US Patent Issued to Advanced Liquid Logic, Duke University on June 17 for "Droplet-based surface modification and washing" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,205, issued on June 17, was assigned to Advanced Liquid Logic Inc. (San Diego) and Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Droplet-based surface modification and washing" was invented by Vamsee K. Pamula (Cary, N.C.), Vijay Srinivasan (Cary, N.C.), Michael G. Pollack (Durham, N.C.) and Richard B. Fair (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to droplet-based surface modification and washing. According to one embodiment, a method of splitting a droplet is provided, the method including providing a droplet microactuator including a droplet including one or more beads and immobilizing at least one of the one o...