ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,080, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to ProteinSimple (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for electrophoretic separation and analysis of analytes" was invented by Joshua I. Molho (Oakland, Calif.), Kelly Gardner (Berkeley, Calif.), Danh C. Tran (Hayward, Calif.), Eric Jabart (Berkeley, Calif.), David Nilson (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Yuri Kouchnir (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michael Huston (San Jose, Calif.), Colin B. Kennedy (Greenbrae, Calif.) and David John Roach (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for assaying a biological sample for a presence of a target analyte includes an assaying device and a computer control...