US Patent Issued to CORNING on Nov. 3 for "Microcavity plate" (Maine, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,167, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Microcavity plate" was invented by Gregory Roger Martin (Acton, Maine) and Allison Jean Tanner (Portsmouth, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microcavity plates (10) comprise a microcavity substrate and a base (303) comprising a bottom grid comprising a plurality of grid segments arranged in ordered rows and columns to form a plurality of openings, and an open well (307) comprising a plurality of sidewalls (309) extending vertically from a perimeter of the bottom grid. The microcavity substrate comprises a plurality of microcavities (315) arranged in ordered rows ...