ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,483, issued on July 21, was assigned to Cellular Highways Ltd. (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).

"Optical particle analyser with illumination at an oblique angle onto a non-transparent microfluidic chip" was invented by Alex Zhukov (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical particle analyser is provided; the analyser comprising: a microfluidic chip comprising: a flow channel for carrying particles; the flow channel arranged between a transparent window and a non-transparent substrate; a light source configured to emit an illumination beam towards the flow channel; wherein the microfluidic chip and the lig...