ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,278, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to UNIST(ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) (Ulsan, South Korea).

"Method of manufacturing microfluidic channel with membrane formed therein and apparatus for forming membrane inside the microfluidic channel" was invented by Taesung Kim (Ulsan, South Korea) and Sangjin Seo (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of manufacturing a microfluidic channel with a membrane formed therein, the method including: preparing an apparatus for forming a membrane, the apparatus for forming the membrane including a first microfluidic channel, a second microfluid...