US Patent Issued to WAFFLEDX on Sept. 23 for "Method and apparatus for conducting multiple reactions" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,280, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to WAFFLEDX Ltd. (London).

"Method and apparatus for conducting multiple reactions" was invented by Timothy Keating (Melbourn, Great Britain), Andrew Malloy (Melbourn, Great Britain), Giles Sanders (Melbourn, Great Britain), Gary Jepps (Melbourn, Great Britain) and Christofer Toumazou (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing multiple parallel reactions and comprising introducing a liquid into a space between first and second flexible sheets, the liquid containing one or more reagents, applying localised pressure across the sheets in order to form a multiplicity of liquid fil...