US Patent Issued to BACTEROMIC SP. Z on May 6 for "Incubation well with an unvented gas cavity for use in a microfluidic chip" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,807, issued on May 6, was assigned to BACTEROMIC SP. Z O.O. (Warsaw, Poland).

"Incubation well with an unvented gas cavity for use in a microfluidic chip" was invented by Piotr Garstecki (Warsaw, Poland), Jaroslaw Ziolkowski (Konstantynow Lodzki, Poland) and Piotr Knap (Hrubieszow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An incubation segment in a microfluidic chip for microbiological assays, wherein said incubation segment is formed in a substrate with an upper major face and a lower major face, said segment includes an incubation well, an inlet channel through which a sample may be inputted into said incubation well, and a gas cavity...