US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on June 2 for "Method for rapid and large-scale generation of droplets and droplet libraries" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,094, issued on June 2, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Method for rapid and large-scale generation of droplets and droplet libraries" was invented by Adam R. Abate (San Francisco), Jesse Qiuxu Zhang (San Francisco), Leqian Liu (San Francisco), Cyrille L. Delley (San Francisco), Russell Cole (San Francisco), Christian Siltanen (San Francisco) and Ata Dolatmoradi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of generating droplets that includes aspirating a first liquid into a tube, positioning the tube over a receiving liquid, and ejecting the first liquid to gener...