US Patent Issued to Hidaca on May 12 for "Well array device, system and methods of use thereof" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,218, issued on May 12, was assigned to Hidaca LTD (Toronto).

"Well array device, system and methods of use thereof" was invented by Jie Chen (Edmonton, Canada), Lukas Menze (Edmonton, Canada) and Pedro A. Duarte (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The microfluidic chip and the microfluidic system of the present invention provides a unique integration of a microfluidic chip and a label-free quantification process. The microfluidic chip uses well arrays and dielectrophoresis (DEP) to capture a polarizable agent in a well. Once the polarizable agents have been captured, non-faradaic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (nF...