ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,965, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Centrifugal-driven microfluidic platform and method of use thereof" was invented by Chih-Hsin Shih (Taichung, Taiwan), Yi-Ching Chiang (Taichung, Taiwan), Chao-Hui Ke (Taichung, Taiwan) and Chih-Ting Liao (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In this invention, chromatography is integrated on a centrifugal platform to enable low-cost automated purification. Differing from the traditional chromatography method, purification and separation of a centrifugal compound collecting platform disclosed in the present invention mainly uses a centrifugal f...