ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,704, issued on April 21, was assigned to ASTRAVEUS (Le Kremlin-Bicetre, France).
"Apparatus and method for clamping a microfluidic device" was invented by Jeremie Laurent (Chatenay-Malabry, France), Nicolas Jamond (Senlisse, France), Vincent Thisse (Choisy le Roi, France) and Philippe Kergourlay (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus suitable for clamping at least one microfluidic device, which includes (i) a fluid-tight chamber having a fluid inlet, the chamber being configured to receive a microfluidic device to be clamped by compression of at least one deformable part of the microfluidic device under the action of a p...