US Patent Issued to A. National Research Council of Canada on March 31 for "World-to-chip automated interface for centrifugal microfluidic platforms" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,394, issued on March 31, was assigned to A. National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa).

"World-to-chip automated interface for centrifugal microfluidic platforms" was invented by Liviu Clime (Longueuil, Canada), Keith Morton (St-Bruno, Canada), Daniel Brassard (Longueuil, Canada), Mathias Geissler (Boucherville, Canada), Jamal Daoud (Montreal), Harold Hebert (Longueuil, Canada) and Teodor Veres (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifugal microfluidic platform is combined with a stationary liquid pumping system which pumps liquids into microfluidic chips by dripping through a stationary dispensing nozzle without any phys...