US Patent Issued to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY on Sept. 23 for "Thin, soft, skin-mounted microfluidic networks for detection and analysis of targets of interest in sweat" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,570, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.).

"Thin, soft, skin-mounted microfluidic networks for detection and analysis of targets of interest in sweat" was invented by John A. Rogers (Wilmette, Ill.), Tyler R. Ray (Evanston, Ill.), Jungil Choi (Chicago) and Yi Zhang (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are flexible, microfluidic epidermal systems and methods useful in the analysis of biofluids for biomarkers corresponding to a variety of conditions and methods of use. The provided systems configured to create conformal contact with the skin to allow for medical testing...