US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on Feb. 24 for "Contact pin printhead for microarray spot printing" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,895, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Contact pin printhead for microarray spot printing" was invented by Max Marcel Shulaker (Cambridge, Mass.), Alicia Ann Coto (Boston) and Graham E McGrath (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact pin printhead for microfluidic array spot printing can include a printhead chassis with a plurality of micro-pins insertable within respective sockets in the printhead chassis. An individual micro-pin can include a micro-pin tip that can be individually biased in a distal direction toward a target substrate via an elastic mechanical biaser associated wit...