US Patent Issued to Pattern Bioscience on Sept. 16 for "Microfluidic chips including a gutter having a trough and a ridge to facilitate loading thereof and related methods" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,182, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Pattern Bioscience Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Microfluidic chips including a gutter having a trough and a ridge to facilitate loading thereof and related methods" was invented by Ross Johnson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic chip can comprise a body defining a microfluidic network having one or more inlet ports, a test volume, and one or more flow paths extending between the inlet port(s) and the test volume. Along each of the flow path(s), fluid can flow from one of the inlet port(s), through at least one droplet-generating region in which a minimum cross-sectional ar...