US Patent Issued to Essenlix on Sept. 29 for "Pedestal card and methods for liquid sample control and assay" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,544, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Essenlix Corp. (Monmouth Junction, N.J.).

"Pedestal card and methods for liquid sample control and assay" was invented by Stephen Y. Chou (Princeton, N.J.) and Wei Ding (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for liquid sample collection and liquid sample analysis, including: a base plate having: at least one pedestal area in at least a portion of a sample image area; and at least one recessed area, wherein at least of a portion of the at least one pedestal area is adjacent to the at least one recessed area; a cover plate that opposes the base plate; a plurality of spacers at...