ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,806, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Array Science LLC (Sausalito, Calif.).
"Method for making a microarray block" was invented by Regan Spencer Fulton (Sausalito, Calif.), William Scott Crawford (Dublin, Calif.) and Trinh Kiet Hoac (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making a microarray block with a recipient block formed from a material and having at least one bore therein. A cylindrical core of a biological sample and a carrier medium can be provided. At least a portion of the core can be disposed in the at least one bore of the recipient block. The core can be made compatible with the material of the rec...