ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,198, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GENEMIND BIOSCIENCES COMPANY Ltd. (Shenzhen City, China).

"Biochip and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Jinhong Gao (Shenzhen City, China), Zhi Zhao (Shenzhen City, China), Luyang Zhao (Shenzhen City, China), Qi Wang (Shenzhen City, China) and Fang Chen (Shenzhen City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chip and a manufacturing method for the chip, comprising a weak passivation treatment following a fixing treatment. The weak passivation treatment comprises putting a weak passivation reaction solution containing a catalyst into contact with a chip for the fixing treatment, s...