ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,421, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Lightcast Discovery Ltd (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Droplet generator and generation method" was invented by Isaac Thomas Henry (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating droplets from a liquid sample is described and is characterised by the steps of a) locating the sample at a first electrowetting location and applying an electrowetting force to cause a region of the sample to become elongated in a direction in which the electrowetting force is applied; b) temporarily altering the electrowetting force on the sample and accumulating electrostatic surface char...