ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,270, issued on May 13, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Integrated biological sensing platform" was invented by Tsung-Tsun Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Allen Timothy Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jui-Cheng Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a device includes: an electrode configured to change a contact angle of a liquid droplet above the electrode when a first voltage is applied to the electrode; a sensing film overlaying the electrode, wherein the electrode is configured for assessment of a state of the liquid droplet based on a second voltage sensed at...