US Patent Issued to THE BROAD INSTITUTE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Feb. 3 for "Massively parallel on-chip coalescence of microemulsions" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,516, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Massively parallel on-chip coalescence of microemulsions" was invented by Paul Blainey (Cambridge, Mass.), Anthony Kulesa (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jared Kehe (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to microfluidic devices that allow for scalable on-chip screening of combinatorial libraries and methods of use thereof. Droplets comprising individual molecular species to be screened are loaded onto the microfluidic device. The droplets are labele...