US Patent Issued to Lightcast Discovery on Sept. 15 for "Microdroplet manipulation device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,519, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Lightcast Discovery Ltd (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Microdroplet manipulation device" was invented by Richard Jeremy Ingham (Cambridge, Great Britain), Jasmin Kaur Chana Conterio (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Thomas Henry Isaac (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for manipulating microdroplets comprises a microfluidic chip adapted to receive and manipulate microdroplets dispersed in a carrier fluid flowing along pathways therethrough characterised in that chip includes regions of differing or zero microdroplet fluid flow rates. Also disclosed is an electrowetti...