US Patent Issued to THE BROAD INSTITUTE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 17 for "Reaction circuit design in microfluidic circuits" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,154, issued on June 17, was assigned to THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Reaction circuit design in microfluidic circuits" was invented by Paul Blainey (Cambridge, Mass.), Son Hoang (Cambridge, Mass.), Huaibin (Eli) Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Jillian Nolan (Cambridge, Mass.) and Soohong Kim (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The microfluidic devices and systems disclosed herein reduce sample loss and help decrease sample processing bottlenecks for applications such as next generation sequencing (NGS). The microfluidic devices include a plurality of...