ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,754, issued on April 29, was assigned to ImpriMed Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for high-throughput screening of chemical and biochemical compounds" was invented by Sungwon Lim (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jun Kim (Mountain View, Calif.), Jamin Koo (Seoul, South Korea) and Hye-Ryeon Lee (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of manufacture includes an array of distinct and separate regions with respective pharmaceutical compounds located thereon. The array of distinct and separate regions includes a first region with a first set of one or more pharmaceutical compounds located thereon; a second region, th...