ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,496, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QINGDAO HAIER REFRIGERATOR Co. LTD. (Shandong, China) and HAIER SMART HOME Co. LTD. (Shandong, China).

"Microfluidic detection system for refrigerator and refrigerator" was invented by Bin Fei (Qingdao, China), Haoquan Liu (Qingdao, China), Jing Wang (Qingdao, China) and Bintang Zhao (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a microfluidic detection system for a refrigerator and the refrigerator. The microfluidic detection system comprises: a microfluidic biochip that has a sample inlet, a detection pool and a communication port, all of which communicate in sequence by means o...