US Patent Issued to Oxford Nanopore Technologies on May 6 for "Droplet interfaces in electro-wetting devices" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,815, issued on May 6, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Droplet interfaces in electro-wetting devices" was invented by Matthew Holden (Oxford, Great Britain), James White (Oxford, Great Britain), Andrew John Heron (Oxford, Great Britain), James Anthony Clarke (Oxford, Great Britain), Jason Robert Hyde (Oxford, Great Britain), Benjamin James Hadwen (Oxford, Great Britain) and Sally Anderson (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Droplet interfaces are formed between droplets in an electro-wetting device comprising an array of actuation electrodes. Actuation signals are applied to...