ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,367, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS LLC (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Apparatus, system, and method using immiscible-fluid-discrete-volumes" was invented by Linda G. Lee (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sam L Woo (Redwood City, Va.), Congcong Ma (Foster City, Calif.), Richard T. Reel (Hayward, Calif.), Mark F. Oldham (Emerald Hills, Calif.), David M. Cox (Foster City, Calif.), Benjamin G. Schroeder (San Mateo, Calif.), Jon M. Sorenson (Alameda, Calif.) and Willy Wiyatno (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings relate to a system or method for sample preparation or analysis in biochemical...