US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 17 for "Printing droplets containing biological material" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,605, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Printing droplets containing biological material" was invented by Adam R. Abate (San Francisco), Linfeng Xu (San Francisco), Leqian Liu (San Francisco) and Kai-chun Chang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method including encapsulating a biological material in a droplet having a volume of 500 nl or less, depositing the droplet to an addressable location of a substrate, and performing mass spectroscopy on the droplet. The method can further include conducting omic analysis on the droplet, such as sequenci...