ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,365, issued on May 27, was assigned to Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).
"Microfluidic apparatus and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Wei Li (Shanghai), Baiquan Lin (Shanghai), Kerui Xi (Shanghai), Linzhi Wang (Shanghai) and Zhenyu Jia (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a microfluidic apparatus and a manufacturing method thereof. The microfluidic apparatus includes a microfluidic substrate including a base substrate, an electrode array layer located on the base substrate, and a hydrophobic layer, where the electrode array layer includes a plurality of electrodes arranged in an arra...