US Patent Issued to LABCYTE on Sept. 9 for "Acoustic droplet ejection of non-newtonian fluids" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,648, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to LABCYTE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Acoustic droplet ejection of non-newtonian fluids" was invented by Sammy S. Datwani (Pleasanton, Calif.), Carson Riche (Fremont, Calif.), Marsha N. Blauwkamp (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Justin Blonigan (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of ejecting droplets containing a non-Newtonian fluid by an acoustic droplet ejector can include applying a tone burst of focused acoustic energy to a fluid reservoir containing a non-Newtonian fluid at sufficient amplitude to effect droplet ejection according to a tone burst pattern. The tone burst pattern ...