US Patent Issued to Triangle Biotechnology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 22 for "Targeted multifocal lens for biological sample processing and related methods" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,264, issued on April 22, was assigned to Triangle Biotechnology Inc. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Targeted multifocal lens for biological sample processing and related methods" was invented by Jinwook Kim (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Sandeep Kasoji (Durham, N.C.), Paul Dayton (Carrboro, N.C.) and Joe McMahon (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sonicator system for sonicating materials in a sample array includes a transducer layer configured to emit acoustic energy; and a multifocus acoustic lens layer configured to focus the acoustic energy from the transducer la...