ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,455, issued on July 29, was assigned to LABCYTE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for charged droplet detection and control" was invented by Lucien P. Ghislain (San Jose, Calif.), Wilfredo T. Sagun (San Jose, Calif.), Eunchul Choe (San Jose, Calif.) and Richard G. Stearns (Soquel, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are described herein for detecting positions or trajectories and/or controlling directions of charged droplets during travel. The systems and methods are useful for determining the locations of the charged droplets in real-time based on signals induced in the electrodes of a sensor surroun...