US Patent Issued to MGI Tech on May 13 for "Apparatus and method for forming droplets having predetermined volume by electrowetting" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,341, issued on May 13, was assigned to MGI Tech Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Apparatus and method for forming droplets having predetermined volume by electrowetting" was invented by Jian Gong (Danville, Calif.), Shifeng Li (Fremont, Calif.) and Cheng Frank Zhong (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for forming a plurality of microdroplets (26a, 26', 56) from a droplet (16, 26, 263) includes a substrate (12, 22, 22b, 22c, 1101), a dielectric layer (13, 23, 23b, 23c, 43a, 43b, 43) on the substrate (12, 22, 22b, 22c, 1101) and having a plurality of hydrophilic surface regions (48a, 491, 49) spaced apart from e...