US Patent Issued to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma on March 25 for "Electrospray assisted capillary device for processing ultra low-volume samples" (Oklahoma, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,370, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Okla.).

"Electrospray assisted capillary device for processing ultra low-volume samples" was invented by Si Wu (Norman, Okla.), Lushuang Huang (Norman, Okla.) and Zhe Wang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spray-capillary device is configured to process ultra-low-volume samples. The spray-capillary device includes a capillary tube that includes a lumen, an inner surface, an outer surface, an inlet end for receiving a fluid, and a discharge end having a porous section. A polymer material may be applied to the inner surfa...