US Patent Issued to COMBINATI on Feb. 17 for "Microfluidic siphoning array for nucleic acid quantification" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,890, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to COMBINATI Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Microfluidic siphoning array for nucleic acid quantification" was invented by Ju-Sung Hung (Palo Alto, Calif.), Andrew Zayac (Redwood City, Calif.) and Megan Dueck (Brisbane, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the present disclose provides methods for amplifying and quantifying nucleic acids. Methods for amplifying and quantifying nucleic acids comprise isolating a sample comprising nucleic acid molecules into a plurality of microchambers, performing a polymerase chain reaction on the plurality of microchambers, and analyzing the results o...