B01L 3/5088
Confining liquids at a location by surface tension
Official title: {confining liquids at a location by surface tension, e.g. virtual wells on plates, wires (B01L3/50857 takes precedence)}
B01L3/5088 (Confining liquids at a location by surface tension) appears on 326 US grants and 510 published applications in this corpus.
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