ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,105, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Ill.).
"Method for droplet loading into nanowells" was invented by Karen Leirs (Leuven, Belgium), Elena Perez-Ruiz (Leuven, Belgium) and Jeroen Lammertyn (Leuven, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method of loading wells with a liquid droplet, or a portion thereof, wherein each liquid droplet comprises solid supports and a detergent or surfactant, such that the detergent or surfactant reduces the contact angle between the liquid droplet and the wells. Also provided is a method of detecting and quantifying an analyte of interest in a sa...