US Patent Issued to Owl biomedical on Oct. 14 for "Microfabricated droplet dispensor with immiscible fluid and genetic sequencer" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,841, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Owl biomedical Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Microfabricated droplet dispensor with immiscible fluid and genetic sequencer" was invented by John S Foster (New Orleans), Mehran Hoonejani (Goleta, Calif.), Kevin Shields (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Hansueli Meyer (Acton, Mass.), Robert Pinard (Lowell, Mass.) and Matthias Wahl (Solingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfabricated droplet dispensing structure is described, which may include a MEMS microfluidic fluidic valve, configured to open and close a microfluidic channel. The opening and closing of the valve may separate a target biologica...