ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,461, issued on May 5, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Visual interface for generation of groups and experiment building" was invented by Joshua Cooper (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Benjamin Paradis (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user interface that includes a plate map that automatically updates to provide indicia descriptive of parameter assignments and parameter groups can provide an intuitive system for building experiments. For example, a user may provide one or more inputs to generate and assign a parameter setting to a plurality of cells that represent a plurality of wells. The...