US Patent Issued to IDEXX LABORATORIES on Dec. 2 for "Biochemical probes attached to epoxy-based resins" (Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,239, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to IDEXX LABORATORIES INC. (Westbrook, Maine).

"Biochemical probes attached to epoxy-based resins" was invented by Alexei Boris Shvets (Gorham, Maine), Darrin Leighton Ramsdell (Portland, Maine), Michelle M. Straub (Yarmouth, Maine), Yerramilli V. S. N. Murthy (Scarborough, Maine), Phillip Sheldon Smith (Gorham, Maine) and Anne Catherine Fitzpatrick (Portland, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a method for making a solid substrate for conducting biological and chemical assays and to the solid substrate made by the method."

The patent was filed on Feb. 28, 202...