US Patent Issued to Psomagen on Nov. 4 for "Manipulation of sample droplets with an electrode system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,096, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Psomagen Inc. (Rockville, Md.).

"Manipulation of sample droplets with an electrode system" was invented by Zachary Apte (San Francisco), Nathan Saichek (San Francisco) and Jessica Richman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for sample droplet processing, the system including a substrate, an electrode array network coupled to the substrate and configured to provide a pattern of controlled electric fields for manipulation of the set of sample droplets; a first layer in communication with the electrode array network, the first layer separating the electrode array networ...