US Patent Issued to Baebies on June 23 for "Micro-regional thermal control for digital microfluidics" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,656, issued on June 23, was assigned to Baebies Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Micro-regional thermal control for digital microfluidics" was invented by Daniel Wu (Durham, N.C.), Rainer Ng (Durham, N.C.), Greg Smith (Durham, N.C.), Vijay Srinivasan (Durham, N.C.) and Vamsee Pamula (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of thermal cycling a droplet, including providing a droplet actuator with heaters establishing a first thermal zone and second thermal zone in a substantially oil-filled droplet operations gap; a thermal cycling path comprising droplet operations electrodes comprising a first droplet operations electrode in the f...