US Patent Issued to Bio-Rad Laboratories on Nov. 4 for "Method and system for sampling material from cells" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,248, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Hercules, Calif.).

"Method and system for sampling material from cells" was invented by Arkadiusz Bibillo (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Pranav Patel (Fremont, Calif.), Christopher Reggiardo (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Jonathan Petersen (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for sampling/isolating material from cells. An exemplary system may comprise a chip including an electrode array of sampling electrodes arranged along a surface of the chip. A cell-receiving area may be located adjacent the surface of the chip. The system also may c...