US Patent Issued to Celldom, The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 1 for "Sealed microwell assay" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,134, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Celldom Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Sealed microwell assay" was invented by Natalia Tkachenko (San Diego), Eugene Tkachenko (Del Mar, Calif.), Alexander Groisman (San Diego) and Edgar Gutierrez (Spring Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods, systems and kits for performing microwell analysis in sealed small volumes. The microwells of the invention are sealed through the pairing of microwell and bead geometry wherein the diameter of the beads is greater than the diameter of the bottom ...