US Patent Issued to INTERFACE FLUIDICS on Oct. 14 for "Manifolds for microfluidic chips, microfluidic chips, and related methods and assemblies" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,836, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to INTERFACE FLUIDICS LTD. (Calgary, Canada).

"Manifolds for microfluidic chips, microfluidic chips, and related methods and assemblies" was invented by Thomas De Haas (Edmonton, Canada), Zahraa Elshabasy (Mississauga, Canada), Zahra Barikbin (Edmonton, Canada) and Dylan Vaclavik (Victoria, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic assembly includes a jack for forcing a base and a cover together to sandwich a microfluidic chip between base and the cover, with the base and the cover bearing against the microfluidic chip to apply a confining pressure to the microfluidic chip, and with a s...