ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,344, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Nautilus Subsidiary Inc. (Seattle).

"Fluidic media for single-analyte arrays" was invented by Rukshan Perera (Newark, Calif.), Maryam Jouzi (Hayward, Calif.), Cassandra Stawicki (Foster City, Calif.), Torri Elise Rinker (San Francisco), Chol Yun (San Diego), Kenneth Kuhn (San Diego) and Raymond Mak (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of minimizing detection of unintended signals during array-based processes are provided. Methods include the use of sets of fluidic media that inhibit sources of unintended signals during array-based processes. Also provided are systems containing t...