ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,610, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Hercules, Calif.).

"System and method for target material retrieval from microwells" was invented by Kalyan Handique (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Swati Ranade (Hercules, Calif.), Vishal Sharma (Hercules, Calif.), Austin Payne (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Sam Tuck (Hercules, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for target material retrieval and processing, the system comprising: an adaptor configured to interface with a capture region of a capture substrate for capturing particles in single-particle format within a set of wells, wherein the adaptor comprises a firs...