ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,673, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Sharp Life Science (EU) Ltd. (Uxbridge, Great Britain).
"Magnetic particle extraction in an EWOD instrument" was invented by Adam Christopher Wilson (Oxford, Great Britain), Peter Neil Taylor (Oxford, Great Britain), Sally Anderson (Oxford, Great Britain), Philip Mark Shryane Roberts (Oxford, Great Britain), Adrian Marc Simon Jacobs (Oxford, Great Britain), Leslie Anne Parry-Jones (Oxford, Great Britain) and Benjamin James Hadwen (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an EWOD device to employs a magnetic field to separate magnetically responsive particles fr...