US Patent Issued to National Chung Cheng University on May 26 for "Paper-based micro-concentrator, biological sample detection device and biological sample detection method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,616, issued on May 26, was assigned to National Chung Cheng University (Chiayi, Taiwan).

"Paper-based micro-concentrator, biological sample detection device and biological sample detection method" was invented by Shau-Chun Wang (ChiaYi City, Taiwan), Lai-Kwan Chau (Chiayi City, Taiwan), Jia-Jie Lin (Taichung City, Taiwan), Yuan-Yu Chen (Nantou City, Taiwan) and Ya-Chuan Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A paper-based micro-concentrator includes a bearing substrate, a fluid reservoir unit, a filter paper, an external electric field, an ion exchange membrane and a magnet. The fluid reservoir unit includes a first ...