ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,556, issued on March 17, was assigned to Zafrens Inc. (San Diego).
"Perturbation beads for use in assays" was invented by Kandaswamy Vijayan (San Diego), Ravi Ramenani (San Diego), Chulmin Choi (San Diego), Aurelien Laguerre (La Jolla, Calif.), Gopichandran Ravichandran (San Diego), Nicholas Sam-Soon (San Diego), Yi Zhang (San Diego), David Milliken (San Diego), Kenneth Chng (San Diego) and Maina Ndungu (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are uniquely labeled perturbation beads used alone or in combination with a capture bead. These perturbation beads are useful in drug discovery especially in assays conducted in a m...