US Patent Issued to BACTEROMIC SP. Z on May 26 for "Microfluidic chip" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,647, issued on May 26, was assigned to BACTEROMIC SP. Z O.O. (Warsaw, Poland).

"Microfluidic chip" was invented by Piotr Garstecki (Warsaw, Poland), Pawel Debski (Warsaw, Poland), Jaroslaw Ziolkowski (Konstantynow Lodzki, Poland) and Piotr Knap (Hrubieszow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic chip for conducting microbiological assays, includes a substrate in which incubation segments, a sample reservoir and microfluidic channels connecting the sample reservoir with the incubation segments are arranged. The microfluidic chip further includes a non-aqueous liquid reservoir for containing non-aqueous liquid wherein the ...