US Patent Issued to Labcyte on Aug. 12 for "Acoustic concentration, transfer and analysis of samples containing particles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,820, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Labcyte Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Acoustic concentration, transfer and analysis of samples containing particles" was invented by Richard N. Ellson (Palo Alto, Calif.), Richard G. Stearns (Soquel, Calif.) and Babur Hadimioglu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein employ focused acoustic energy applied to a reservoir containing a fluid to eject a fluid sample from the fluid sample reservoir, e.g. to an inlet of an analytical device. In many embodiments, the ejected fluid sample traverses an air gap separating the inlet of the analytical device ...