ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,009, issued on April 15, was assigned to GEN-PROBE Inc. (San Diego).
"Microfluidic cartridge" was invented by Yann Marcy (Marseilles, France), Marc Artigue (Noisy Sur Ecole, France), Quentin Le Masne (Grenoble, France) and Kevin Marq (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic cartridge for detecting one nucleic acid of a sample, including a plurality of functional volumes split into functional areas and a fluidic network of microchannels. At least three functional areas are fluidly connected to a central distribution hub of fluids by one or more hub-connected microchannels, the central distribution hub...