US Patent Issued to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Oct. 20 for "Fluidic devices with bead well geometries with spatially separated bead retention and signal detection segments and related methods" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,513, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Fluidic devices with bead well geometries with spatially separated bead retention and signal detection segments and related methods" was invented by John Michael Ramsey (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and William Hampton Henley (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluidic device includes a plurality of reaction wells, typically in a dense array, with at least one bead retention segment in fluid communication with and spatially separated from at least one signal detection segment. A respective bead retention segment can be ...