US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Dec. 9 for "Nanowell array device for high throughput sample analysis" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,516, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Nanowell array device for high throughput sample analysis" was invented by Ying Zhu (Richland, Wash.), Jongmin Woo (Richland, Wash.) and Ljiljana Pasa-Tolic (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for biological sample preparation and analysis is disclosed. The device includes a substrate and a plurality of spaced apart arrays disposed on an upper surface of the substrate. Each array includes a plurality of reaction vessels, each reaction vessel having a hydrophilic surface. A hydrophilic ring surrounds each array. Methods of making...