US Patent Issued to William Marsh Rice University on April 14 for "Apparatus and methods for multiplexed amplification and detection of DNA using convectional heating and label-free microarray" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,908, issued on April 14, was assigned to William Marsh Rice University (Houston).

"Apparatus and methods for multiplexed amplification and detection of DNA using convectional heating and label-free microarray" was invented by David Yu Zhang (Houston), Dmitriy A. Khodakov (Houston) and Xuemeng Zhang (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes apparatus and methods for multiplexed amplification and detection of nucleic acid targets in a sample. Embodiments of the present disclosure include a mechanical system configured to provide loading, vertical positioning and clamping of a chip; a thermal control system confi...