ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,910, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Hercules, Calif.).

"Compositions, methods, and systems for sample processing with morphology-adjustable functionalized particles" was invented by Vishal Sharma (Hercules, Calif.), Ronald Lebofsky (Hercules, Calif.), Man Cheng (Hercules, Calif.), Adam McCoy (Hercules, Calif.), Kalyan Handique (Hercules, Calif.) and Eric Pomaranski (Hercules, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inventions covered include methods, systems, and compositions for sample processing, involving morphology-adjustable (e.g., tunable on-demand) functionalized particles. In some embodiments, a m...