ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,479, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to LifeFoundry Inc. (Champaign, Ill.).
"Systems and methods for supporting multiple automated workflows" was invented by Ran Chao (Champaign, Ill.), Jing Jiang (Champaign, Ill.) and Shaoyu Meng (Champaign, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automated workflow comprise assigning a set of first targets to an uncompiled first workflow. The uncompiled first workflow specifies a first set of process modules. Each such module is associated with a subset of unit operations. Each unit operation includes a time interval and specifies an instrument. For each target in the set of fir...