US Patent Issued to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG on Jan. 13 for "Microfluidic preconcentrator" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,712, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris) and UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG (Strasbourg, France).

"Microfluidic preconcentrator" was invented by Stephane Le Calve (Strasbourg, France), Alberto Rodrigues Cuevas (Strasbourg, France), Irene Lara-Ibeas (Strasbourg, France), Agathe Leprince (Strasbourg, France) and Michel Wolf (Strasbourg, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic preconcentrator is provided, designed to receive a gas sample containing gaseous pollutants such as volatile organic compounds, to concentrate the gaseous pollutants and to transfer them to an analysis dev...