ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,863, issued on March 25, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Sensing system and method of operation" was invented by Matthew Holden (Cambridge, Mass.) and Andrew John Heron (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a sensing system comprising an electrowetting device, which electrowetting device comprises an array of actuation electrodes, and a control system configures to perform droplet operations on a system of droplets present in the sensing system. The invention also relates to a method of operating the sensing system of the invention. The invention als...