ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,985, issued on March 4, was assigned to WITHINGS (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).
"System and apparatus for injecting droplets in a microfluidic system" was invented by Eric Carreel (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France), Charlotte Leger (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France), Pierre-Antoine Cuniasse (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France) and Elian Martin (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic apparatus for delivering droplets of a first fluid to droplets of a second fluid, comprising a main channel, with a carrier fluid carrying droplets of the second fluid, an auxiliary channel, fluidly coupled to the main channel at a first...