US Patent Issued to Bio-Rad Laboratories on July 8 for "Manipulation of microfluidic droplets" (North Carolina, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,673, issued on July 8, was assigned to Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Hercules, Calif.).

"Manipulation of microfluidic droplets" was invented by Benjamin Miller (Cornelius, N.C.), Brian Hutchison (Medford, Mass.), Andrew Wilson (Arlington, Mass.), Jonathan William Larson (Chelsea, Mass.), Qun Zhong (Lexington, Mass.), Yevgeny Yurkovetsky (Winchester, Mass.), Darren Link (Lafayette, Calif.) and Mark Weary (North Billerica, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods for assessing one or more predetermined characteristics or properties of a microfluidic droplet within a microfluidic channel, and regulating one or mor...