US Patent Issued to SCINTIMETRICS on July 29 for "Compositions and methods based on diffusion of fluorophores" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,465, issued on July 29, was assigned to SCINTIMETRICS INC. (San Diego).

"Compositions and methods based on diffusion of fluorophores" was invented by Christopher Gordon Atwood (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for detection of an analyte in a sample, where the sample is introduced into an analytic chamber along with droplets of an emulsion or gel beads. In another aspect, the present disclosure provides designs for formulations of emulsion drops or gel beads such that they are useful for detection of analytes in a massively parallel manner. Formulations that contain specific combinatio...