ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,650, issued on May 19, was assigned to EGI Tech (Qing Dao) Co. Ltd. (Shandong, China).
"Parallel multi-step bio-reaction system and method" was invented by Yiwen Ouyang (San Jose, Calif.), Sz-Chin Lin (San Jose, Calif.) and Cheng Zhong (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parallel multi-step bio-reaction system(10) comprising: (a) a substrate arrangement(12) comprising a plurality of bio-reaction substrate holders(18) configured to hold a plurality of bio-reaction substrates(20); (b) a well arrangement(14) comprising a plurality of fluidic wells(22), the fluidic wells(22) corresponding to a plurality of steps of a mult...