ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,676, issued on March 3, was assigned to Revere BioSensors LLC (Worcester, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for separating decoded arrays" was invented by Theofilos Kotseroglou (Birmingham, Mich.), Vladimir Bashkirov (Birmingham, Mich.) and Robert Charles Kain (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions for the fabrication and use of arrays are disclosed. Methods of the disclosure include separating decoded arrays, such as bead arrays, into independent sections and subsections. Methods of the disclosure can enable more economical fabrication of arrays suitable for conducting various assays, such as detection...