ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,043, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to STANDARD BIOTOOLS INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Parallelized sample processing and library prep" was invented by Michael L. Phelan (South San Francisco, Calif.), Christopher J. Kubu (South San Francisco, Calif.), Brian Fowler (San Mateo, Calif.), Gang Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Nikita Patel (San Bruno, Calif.) and Naveen Ramalingam (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods, kits and systems for sample enrichment, multi-step library preparation, sample normalization, detection of sample biomolecules and combinations thereof. Enrichment and multi-step...