ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,272, issued on March 17, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Universal multi-detection system for microplates with confocal imaging" was invented by Ross Marcel Piette (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xavier Francois Patrick Amouretti (Santa Clara, Calif.), Caleb Alan Foster (Santa Clara, Calif.), Benjamin Jon Knight (Santa Clara, Calif.), Peter Brent Knox (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ben Edward Norris (Santa Clara, Calif.), James Donald Piette (Santa Clara, Calif.), Richard Niles Sears (Santa Clara, Calif.), Matthew Arthur Stiles (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Oleg Nikolaevich Zimenkov (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trad...