US Patent Issued to Imec VZW on June 24 for "Flow control system for a microfluidic device, microreactor system, DNA synthesis device, and method for controlling a sequence of reactions" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,318, issued on June 24, was assigned to Imec VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"Flow control system for a microfluidic device, microreactor system, DNA synthesis device, and method for controlling a sequence of reactions" was invented by Ahmed Taher (Heverlee, Belgium) and Benjamin Jones (Kessel-Lo, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow control system for a microfluidic device includes: a plurality of fluid flow controllers, each fluid flow controller associated with a respective microfluidic device inlet of the microfluidic device, and wherein each fluid flow controller includes: a controller inlet for receiving a fluid flow, a first f...