US Patent Issued to BRADY WORLDWIDE on Feb. 10 for "Microfluidic device and nucleic acid amplification method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,761, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to BRADY WORLDWIDE INC. (Milwaukee).

"Microfluidic device and nucleic acid amplification method" was invented by Hideki Tanabe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic device for amplifying a nucleic acid includes a cartridge and a control part. The cartridge includes a tank part and a plurality of first chambers. The control part is configured to control execution of a thermal cycle, count a number of repetitions of the thermal cycle for each of the first chambers and store a count value, acquire a fluorescence intensity of each of the first chambers for each thermal cycle, and...