US Patent Issued to Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology on April 15 for "Apparatus for addressing wells within a microarray plate" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,039, issued on April 15, was assigned to Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne, Australia).

"Apparatus for addressing wells within a microarray plate" was invented by Leslie Yeo (Malvern East, Australia), Amgad Rezk (Bayswater, Australia) and Shwathy Ramesan (Lalor, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, including at least one piezoelectric chip having a working surface, and an opposing at least substantially parallel transducer surface; and at least one interdigital transducer applied to the transducer surface of the chip for generating acoustic energy within the chip in response to an application of an e...