US Patent Issued to Life Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Apparatus and methods for performing electrochemical reactions" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,054, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for performing electrochemical reactions" was invented by John Nobile (Guilford, Conn.), George Thomas Roth (Fairfield, Conn.), Todd Rearick (Cheshire, Conn.), Jonathan Schultz (Oxford, Mass.), Jonathan M. Rothberg (Guilford, Conn.) and David Marran (Durham, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a reaction vessels coupled to an electronic sensor for monitoring a reaction product in the reaction vessel; a fluidics system for sequentially delivering a plurality of reagents to the reaction vessel, the fluidics sy...