Patent 9586346 was granted and assigned to Swinburne University of Technology on March, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A bead immobilization method including receiving at least one bead in at least one well in a casting surface, and casting a casting material over the casting surface to form a reverse casting in which the at least one bead is cast onto at least one post upstanding from a surface of the reverse casting.