US Patent Issued to Countable Labs on April 8 for "Systems and methods for generating droplets and performing digital analyses" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,815, issued on April 8, was assigned to Countable Labs Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating droplets and performing digital analyses" was invented by Hei Mun Christina Fan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Janice Hoiyi Lai (Mountain View, Calif.), Sixing Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Stephen P. A. Fodor (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Eleen Yee Lam Shum (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides for devices, methods, and systems for generating a plurality of droplets within a collecting container at an extremely high rate (e.g., of at least 1 million droplets per minute, etc.), each of the plurality...