US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 7 for "Detection of biomarkers in sweat" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,798, issued on July 7, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Detection of biomarkers in sweat" was invented by Eduard Gerard Marie Pelssers (Panningen, Netherlands), Mark Thomas Johnson (Arendonk, Belgium), Thomas Johannes Van Gijsel (Weert, Netherlands), Ron Martinus Laurentius Van Lieshout (Geldrop, Netherlands) and Kiran Hamilton J. Dellimore (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a wearable device for quantitatively detecting a biomarker in a sweat sample obtained from the skin of a subject. The wearable device comprises a microfluidic network. The microfluidic network ...