US Patent Issued to HANDYLAB on Nov. 4 for "Fluorescence detector for microfluidic diagnostic system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,972, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HANDYLAB INC. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Fluorescence detector for microfluidic diagnostic system" was invented by Kalyan Handique (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Sundaresh N. Brahmasandra (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides for a fluorescent detector that is configured to detect light emitted for a probe characteristic of a polynucleotide. The polynucleotide is undergoing amplification in a microfluidic channel with which the detector is in optical communication. The detector is configured to detect minute quantities of polynucleotide, such as would be contained...