US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Jena on Oct. 14 for "Lab-on-a-chip system with functionalized waveguide" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,767, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Lab-on-a-chip system with functionalized waveguide" was invented by Alexandre Gatto (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany) and Michael Totzeck (Oberkochen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lab-on-a-chip system comprises an optical detection waveguide that has an at least partially periodic structure that is configured to couple light from surroundings of the optical detection waveguide into the optical detection waveguide. The lab-on-a-chip system furthermore also comprises a microfluidic network, wherein the microfluidic network has multiple lines and at le...