ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,893, issued on March 4, was assigned to Alentic Microscience Inc. (Halifax, Canada).
"Bead-based analysis of a sample" was invented by Alan Marc Fine (Prospect, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes attaching two or more beads to each unit of one or more units of a chemical component in a sample, to form, for each unit of the chemical component, a multi-bead complex including two or more beads and the unit of the chemical component; placing the sample on a surface of an image sensor; at the image sensor, receiving light originating at a light source, the received light including light reflected by, refracted by, or ...