US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on June 17 for "Assays and other reactions involving droplets" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,287, issued on June 17, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Assays and other reactions involving droplets" was invented by David A. Weitz (Cambridge, Mass.), Jeremy Agresti (Cambridge, Mass.), Liang-Yin Chu (Cambridge, Mass.), Jin-Woong Kim (Cambridge, Mass.), Amy Rowat (Cambridge, Mass.), Morten Sommer (Cambridge, Mass.), Gautam Dantas (Cambridge, Mass.) and George M. Church (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to droplets and/or emulsions, such as multiple emulsions. In some cases, the droplets and/or emulsions may be used in assays, and i...