US Patent Issued to University of Washington on Jan. 20 for "Lateral flow-based systems and methods" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,082, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Lateral flow-based systems and methods" was invented by Joshua Buser (Seattle), Joshua Bishop (Seattle), Dylan Guelig (Seattle), Arielle Howell (Seattle), Sujatha Kumar (Seattle), Paul Yager (Seattle), Koji Abe (Seattle), Erin Heiniger (Seattle), Samantha Byrnes (Seattle), Caitlin Anderson (Seattle), Peter C. Kauffman (Seattle) and Maxwell Wheeler (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology generally relates to stopped-flow microfluidic devices. Select embodiments of the present technology include microfluidic devices having a first porous...