US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITEIT GENT, CNRS, ISEN YNCREA HAUTS-DE-FRANCE, UNIVERSITE DE LILLE, UNIVERSITE POLYTECHNIQUE HAUTS-DE-FRANCE, CENTRALE LILLE INSTITUTE on June 24 for "Method and device to provide a microfluidic flow" (French, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,423, issued on June 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITEIT GENT (Ghent, Belgium), CNRS (Paris), ISEN YNCREA HAUTS-DE-FRANCE (Lille, France), UNIVERSITE DE LILLE (Lille, France), UNIVERSITE POLYTECHNIQUE HAUTS-DE-FRANCE (Valenciennes, France) and CENTRALE LILLE INSTITUTE (Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France).

"Method and device to provide a microfluidic flow" was invented by Kevin Braeckmans (Lokeren, Belgium), Ranhua Xiong (Ghent, Belgium), Majid Layachi (Lille, France), Anthony Treizebre (Coutiches, France), Francois Anquez (Hellemmes, France), Quentin Thommen (Lille, France) and Emmanuel Courtade (Hellemmes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A...