ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,984, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG (Andernach, Germany).

"Apparatus for producing micro-arrays, and method for producing a micro-array" was invented by Stefan Henke (Kirchen, Germany), Jorg Bender (Cologne, Germany), Hagen Trommer (Leipzig, Germany) and Sebastian Scherr (Neuhausel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for producing microarrays includes a die. A plurality of cavities is formed in the die. A cover element is additionally provided in order to cover regions between the cavities. In this manner it is possible to remove an active agent-containing liquid from the regions f...