US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung on Sept. 30 for "Microfluidic device and method for separating off blood serum" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,519, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V. (Munich).

"Microfluidic device and method for separating off blood serum" was invented by Tobias Schunck (Karlsruhe, Germany), Michael Bassler (Mainz, Germany) and Peter Spang (Gau-Bickelheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic blood serum generator having a first port and a second port, between which there is formed a microfluidic structure, wherein the microfluidic structure has a supply duct communicating with the first port, a clotting region into which the supply duct discharges, and a discharge duct ...