ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,344, issued on April 29, was assigned to CYTOSURGE AG (Glattbrugg, Netherlands).
"Method of manufacturing a micro-fluid probe" was invented by Edin Sarajlic (Zutphen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a micro-fluidic probe that is relatively simple comprises providing a pyramidal pit in a substrate with a structural layer. Then metal masking layers using directionally depositing are provided. The angles of deposition are chosen such that for one deposition step the walls are covered but at least one wall is left less or not exposed, whereas for the other deposition said at least one wall is covered e...