ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,361, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUIVER HOLDINGS INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Multiplex optical stimulus and readout" was invented by Gabriel Benito Borja (Boston), Yang Lu (Cambridge, Mass.), Benjamin Harwood (Cambridge, Mass.), Hongkang Zhang (Wellesley, Mass.), Christopher Werley (Cambridge, Mass.), Owen McManus (Belmont, Mass.) and Graham T. Dempsey (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a multi-well plate reader for providing simultaneous transmission of stimulation light to, and detection of emission light from, individual wells of a multi-well plate at a plurality of distinct wavelengths."

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