ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,026, issued on June 10, was assigned to Delta Electronics Inc. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Integrated nucleic acid processing apparatus" was invented by Jing Geng (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yang Liu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Song-Bin Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chien-Ting Liu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yen-You Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Po-Lin Chou (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chih-Yang Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated nucleic acid processing apparatus includes a first operation area, a second operation area and a separation wall. The first operation area includes multiple carrying boards for placing objects and reagents for processing nucleic...