ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,017, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Nagi Bioscience SA (St-Sulpice, Switzerland).
"Apparatus for microscopic biolocigal organism observation" was invented by Matteo Cornaglia (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Fabien Tache (Lausanne, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microscopic biological organism culture and observation apparatus (1) comprising a support structure (10), one or more chip holders (3) mounted on the support structure, a pump (P) and a valve system (V), each chip holder configured for holding a microfluidic chip (2) having one or more microfluidic channels (54) and culture chambers (52) therein extending between ...