US Patent Issued on March 24 for "Integrated droplet-digital microfluidic system for on-demand droplet creation, mixing, incubation, and sorting of droplets in a cell trapping array" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,990, issued on March 24.

"Integrated droplet-digital microfluidic system for on-demand droplet creation, mixing, incubation, and sorting of droplets in a cell trapping array" was invented by Steve Shih (Montreal), Kenza Samlali (Montreal) and Fatemeh Ahmadi (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microfluidic devices, systems and methods are described herein. The devices, systems and methods provide for trapping particles, including cells. Methods of generating a droplet in a microfluidic device and collecting droplets from microfluidic devices are also disclosed herein."

The patent was filed on Nov. 29, 2023, under Application No...