ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,358, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cepheid (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Honeycomb tube" was invented by Yuh-Min Chiang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Doug Dority (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Dustin Dickens (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jennifer Glass (San Jose, Calif.) and Reuel Van Atta (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A honeycomb tube with a planar frame defining a fluidic path between a first planar surface and a second planar surface. A fluidic interface is located at one end of the planar frame. The fluidic interface has a fluidic inlet and fluidic outlet. The fluidic path further includes a well chamber having an well-substrate with a p...