ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,962, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).
"Method for fabricating a microfluidic device" was invented by Giuseppe Fiorentino (Etterbeek, Belgium), Aurelie Humbert (Schaarbeek, Belgium), Simone Severi (Leuven, Belgium) and Benjamin Jones (Kessel-Lo, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fabricating a microfluidic device includes providing an assembly that includes a first silicon substrate having a hydrophilic silicon oxide top surface that includes a microfluidic channel and a second silicon substrate having a hydrophilic silicon oxide bottom surface directly bonded on the top surface of the firs...