US Patent Issued to miDiagnostics on June 2 for "Microfluidic system and a method for providing a sample fluid having a predetermined sample volume" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,100, issued on June 2, was assigned to miDiagnostics NV (Heverlee, Belgium).

"Microfluidic system and a method for providing a sample fluid having a predetermined sample volume" was invented by Benjamin Jones (Leuven, Belgium) and David Mikaelian (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a microfluidic system (10, 20) comprising: a sample reservoir (110, 210); a first sample channel (120, 220) connected to the sample reservoir (110, 210), branching off into a second sample channel (122, 222) ending in a first valve (130, 230), and into a third sample channel (124, 224) which branches off into a f...