ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,993, issued on July 15, was assigned to Shenzhen Biorain Biotechnology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Microfluidic device for digital droplet PCR" was invented by Linfen Yu (Guangdong, China) and Wei Yang (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic device, including: a main body, a sealing layer and a plurality of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) units arranged on the main body. Each PCR unit includes a microchannel arranged on a surface of the main body, and a sample reservoir, an oil reservoir, a droplet generation zone, a transition zone, a droplet storage zone and a collection zone that are communicated with each...