US Patent Issued on July 8 for "Operation of a microfluidic device in the analysis of sample substances" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,661, issued on July 8.

"Operation of a microfluidic device in the analysis of sample substances" was invented by Sven Malik (Hamburg, Germany), Paul Ritter (Ostritz, Germany), Klaus Wiehler (Hamburg, Germany) and Dirk Dammann (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to methods for operating a microfluidic device in the analysis of sample substances, comprising: (i) providing the microfluidic device, which contains an array of separate sensor spots; (ii) addressing a first selection of the sensor spots with sample substances taken up in fluid, said first selection not comprising the whole array of sensor s...