ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,472, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to QINGDAO INSTITUTE OF BIOENERGY AND BIOPROCESS TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Shandong, China).

"Method for forming and respectively exporting droplet wrapping single particle in micro-fluidic chip" was invented by Teng Xu (Shandong, China), Bo Ma (Shandong, China) and Jian Xu (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micro-fluidic chip that can be used for screening a single particle and forming and exporting a droplet wrapping same. The micro-fluidic chip is connected to a liquid sample introduction apparatus, and can constitute a micro-fluidic chip apparatus for forming a dr...