ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,303, issued on March 31, was assigned to ISOLATION BIO INC. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Screening of fluorescent microbes using microfabricated device" was invented by Crystal Emery (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying a fluorescent cell in a sample using a microfabricated chip having a top surface including a plurality of microwells. At least one cell of a sample is loaded into at least one microwell of the plurality of microwells. The microfabricated chip is incubated to grow a population of cells from the at least one cell in the at least one microwell. Fluorescence exhibited by at least one micro...