US Patent Issued to Biodot on March 25 for "Controlled printing of a cell sample for karyotyping" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,304, issued on March 25, was assigned to Biodot Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Controlled printing of a cell sample for karyotyping" was invented by Brian L. Kirk (Carlsbad, Calif.), Anthony V. Lemmo (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Thomas C. Tisone (Orange, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and techniques for controlled printing of a cell sample for karyotyping are provided. The methods can involve matrix printing using on-the-fly printing or dispensing to accurately spread cells within at least one cell sample on a surface in preparation for karyotyping, and further analysis. Advantageously, the methods result in a uniform distrib...