ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,418, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to LEADWAY (HK) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Microfluidic chip for analyte detection" was invented by Xin Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Yi Wang (Zhejiang, China) and Li Zhang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic chip for analyte detection, which is provided with a liquid storage tank (121), the liquid storage tank (121) is internally provided with a through hole I (141), one opening of the through hole I is located in the liquid storage tank, and the liquid in the liquid storage tank passes through the through hole I to bypass the outer boundary (12511) of the portion where the inner surf...