ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,468, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Beijing BOE Sensor Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing) and BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Digital microfluidic apparatus and driving method therefor" was invented by Qiuxu Wei (Beijing), Wenliang Yao (Beijing), Yongjia Gao (Beijing), Bolin Fan (Beijing), Yingying Zhao (Beijing), Le Gu (Beijing) and Li Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital microfluidic apparatus and a driving method therefor. The digital microfluidic apparatus comprises a digital microfluidic chip (10), a thermal control apparatus (20), and an elastic support apparatus (30). The digital microfluidic chip ...