ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,339, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston) and The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Fast, single injection well plate micro-calorimeter using photonic sensors" was invented by Gregory J. Kowalski (Beverly, Mass.), Dale N. Larson (Waban, Mass.), Jason O. Fiering (Boston) and Yuwei Zhang (Malden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for calorimetry includes a well having a volume for receiving a sample, an input feature to facilitate reception of the sample in the well, a light source to irradiate the well and the sample with incident light, and a photonic sensor chip disp...