US Patent Issued to ACCESS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on June 2 for "Ferromagnetic rotors for agitating the liquid in a microwell" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,098, issued on June 2, was assigned to ACCESS MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTD. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Ferromagnetic rotors for agitating the liquid in a microwell" was invented by Hong Tan (San Jose, Calif.), Haode Chen (Shanghai) and Genqian Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Introduced here are rotors that can be placed inside of microplate wells that include liquid samples. Each rotor can be comprised of a ferromagnetic material. Accordingly, when a rotor is subjected to an external rotational magnetic field, the rotor spins and agitates the liquid sample inside the corresponding well. The spin speed may be adjusted by changing the rot...