US Patent Issued to Korea University Research and Business Foundation on June 2 for "Microfluidic device for detecting nucleic acids" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,101, issued on June 2, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Microfluidic device for detecting nucleic acids" was invented by Se-Hyun Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The microfluidic device for detecting nucleic acids includes: a chip main body; a sample chamber formed inside the chip main body and into which a sample is injected; a waste chamber spaced apart from the sample chamber and formed inside the chip main body; a connection conduit formed inside the chip main body to connect the sample chamber and the waste chamber to thereby form a flow path of the sa...