ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,459, issued on April 22.
"Nanofluidic cell and loading platform" was invented by German Sciaini (Waterloo, Canada) and Ariel Petruk (Waterloo, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Parts of a pair, in use, are disposed in abutting relation to one another to define a cell for use with an electron microscope, the cell having, disposed on opposite surfaces thereof, a pair of windows, the windows being arranged in spaced relation to one another to define a viewable interior volume of the cell at a region of overlap. A housing is adapted to receive one of the pair of parts and further adapted to define a chamber containing the one of the p...