US Patent Issued to National Research Council of Canada on Nov. 18 for "Oil residue protection in oil-encapsulated digital microfluidics" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,502, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa).

"Oil residue protection in oil-encapsulated digital microfluidics" was invented by Daniel Brassard (Longueuil, Canada), Lidija Malic (Saint Leonard, Canada), Keith Morton (St-Bruno, Canada) and Teodor Veres (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for supplying droplet content of an oil-encapsulated (OE) digital microfluidic (DMuF) network to a region that is sensitive to oil contact involves sealing off a boundary surrounding the sensitive region with a volume of liquid that is miscible with payload of the OE-droplets. The sensitive reg...