US Patent Issued to Agilent Technologies on May 5 for "Microfluidic component with metal layer stack and fluid conduit element made of another material bonded with it" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,491, issued on May 5, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Microfluidic component with metal layer stack and fluid conduit element made of another material bonded with it" was invented by Armin Steinke (Ettlingen, Germany) and Christian Daniel Ruf (Karlsbad, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic component for a sample separation device includes a layer body with multiple metal layer structures that are connected with each other, and an element made of a material different from the metal layer structures, which includes at least one microfluidic structure and is bonded with the layer body." ...