US Patent Issued to North Carolina State University on May 5 for "Hydrogel-enabled microfluidic sweat sequestering for wearable human-device interfaces" (North Carolina, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,455, issued on May 5, was assigned to North Carolina State University (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Hydrogel-enabled microfluidic sweat sequestering for wearable human-device interfaces" was invented by Orlin D. Velev (Raleigh, N.C.), Timothy W. Shay (Milwaukee) and Michael D. Dickey (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microfluidic devices are provided for continuous sampling of biological fluid for extended periods of time, e.g. for periods of time up to and including 10 days. The microfluidic devices can be made from porous hydrophilic substrate, e.g. hydrophilic paper substrates. The devices can include a collection pad, an evaporativ...