Liquid Handling

FDA issues four patents on applications of acoustic droplet ejection

Published in Biotech Business Week, October 13th, 2003

Picoliter Inc. has been awarded four additional patents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which extends its intellectual property to include the use of focused acoustic energy (ultrasound) to create miniaturized assay arrays, generate particles for pharmaceutical and other applications, and prepare samples for mass spectrometers.

Picoliter believes the inventions described in these patents will enable researchers to dramatically improve liquid handling in a broad set of life science applications.

U.S. Patent No. 6,612,686, "Focused acoustic energy in the preparation and screening of combinatorial libraries" describes methods for...

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Source: Biotech Business Week (2003-10-13)

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