US Patent Issued to INTEGRA Biosciences on July 21 for "Control of evaporation in digital microfluidics" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,009, issued on July 21, was assigned to INTEGRA Biosciences AG (Zizers, Switzerland).

"Control of evaporation in digital microfluidics" was invented by Mais Jehan Jebrail (Toronto), Mathieu Gabriel-Emmanuel Chauleau (San Francisco), Poornasree Kumar (San Francisco), Eduardo Cervantes (San Francisco), Foteini Christodoulou (San Francisco), Nikolay Sergeev (San Francisco), Spencer Seiler (San Francisco), Alejandro Tocigl Domeyko (San Francisco) and Ana Eugenia Carvajal (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Air-matrix digital microfluidics (DMF) apparatuses and methods of using them. These methods and apparatuses may include the...