US Patent Issued to Life Technologies on April 15 for "System and method for determining copies-per-unit-volume using PCR and flow control of droplets" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,997, issued on April 15, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"System and method for determining copies-per-unit-volume using PCR and flow control of droplets" was invented by Gordon A. Janaway (Castro Valley, Calif.), Mark Andersen (Carlsbad, Calif.), Kornelija Zgonc (Carlsbad, Calif.), Michael C. Pallas (San Bruno, Calif.), Marcin Sikora (Burlingame, Calif.), Casey R. Mcfarland (San Francisco), Ferrier N. Le (San Jose, Calif.), Haopeng Wang (Arlington, Va.), Jian Gong (San Marcos, Calif.) and Gothami Padmabandu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for quantification of a target nucleic...