US Patent Issued to LABCYTE on Oct. 14 for "Sample containers adapted for acoustic ejections and sample preservation and methods thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,833, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LABCYTE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sample containers adapted for acoustic ejections and sample preservation and methods thereof" was invented by Richard N. Ellson (Palo Alto, Calif.), Joseph D. Olechno (Hayward, Calif.) and Robert G. Kuimelis (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sample container for holding and transferring a liquid sample and method thereof. The sample container includes an inlet configured to allow a liquid sample to enter a sample container, and an outlet configured to allow one or more droplets of the liquid sample to exit the sample container by one or more aco...