ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,168, issued on April 7, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).
"Method for manufacturing a microfluidic device" was invented by Simone Severi (Leuven, Belgium), Bert Du Bois (Blanden, Belgium) and Ashesh Ray Chaudhuri (Heverlee, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermediate structure for a microfluidic device and a method for manufacturing a microfluidic device are provided. The method includes: a) providing a first substrate having a first layer thereon, and a second layer on the first layer; b) forming a first nanopore in the second layer, in such a way that a part of the first layer coincides with a bottom of the fir...