ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,971, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to QUIVER HOLDINGS INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Optical plate controller and reader" was invented by Gabriel Benito Borja (Boston), Steven Nagle (Cambridge, Mass.), Christopher Werley (Cambridge, Mass.), Yang Lu (Cambridge, Mass.), Adam Barnett (Cambridge, Mass.), Owen McManus (Belmont, Mass.) and Graham T. Dempsey (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes multi-well plate readers, and methods of their use. The multi-well plate readers can transmit stimulation light to, and detect emission light from, individual wells of a multi-well plate, simultaneously."

The ...