US Patent Issued to NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH "DEMOKRITOS" on July 15 for "Methods for ultrasonic fabrication and sealing of microfluidics" (Greek Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,786, issued on July 15, was assigned to NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH "DEMOKRITOS" (Agia Paraskevi, Greece).

"Methods for ultrasonic fabrication and sealing of microfluidics" was invented by Evangelos Gogolides (Agia Paraskevi, Greece), Kosmas Ellinas (Agia Paraskevi, Greece) and George Boulousis (Agia Paraskevi, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of manufacturing a microfluidic device comprising an inflexible polymeric substrate, one or more flexible polymeric substrate(s) and one or more microfluidic channel(s) enclosed between the substrates comprising a) providing a master form including rim protrusions defini...