US Patent Issued to University of Louisville Research Foundation on Oct. 14 for "Microfluidic manifold and methods of use thereof" (Kentucky, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,736, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc. (Louisville, Ky.).

"Microfluidic manifold and methods of use thereof" was invented by Thomas J. Roussel Jr. (Louisville, Ky.), Alexa M. Melvin (Louisville, Ky.), Nichola C. Garbett (Louisville, Ky.), Gabriela Schneider (Louisville, Ky.) and Andrew P. DeFilippis (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extraction chamber includes a main channel, a plasma channel, and a plurality of side channels fluidly connecting the main channel to the plasma channel. Each of the plurality of side channels has an average diameter of at most 200 micro...