ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,987, issued on March 4, was assigned to Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Hercules, Calif.).
"System and method for droplet detection" was invented by David P. Stumbo (Pleasanton, Calif.), George Carman (San Mateo, Calif.), Steve Hobbs (Pleasanton, Calif.), Anthony J. Makarewicz Jr. (Livermore, Calif.), Dmitri Simonian (Mountain View, Calif.), David Glade (San Ramon, Calif.), Joshua Oen (Fremont, Calif.), Denis Pristinski (Pleasanton, Calif.) and John Dzenitis (Danville, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detection of a signal from droplets of an emulsion. An exemplary system may comprise a fluid transporter havin...