US Patent Issued to Nuclera on Sept. 8 for "Spatially variable hydrophobic layers for digital microfluidics" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,300, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nuclera LTD. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Spatially variable hydrophobic layers for digital microfluidics" was invented by David Zhitomirsky (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active matrix electrowetting on dielectric (AM-EWoD) device including a substrate with thin-film transistors (TFT), a dielectric layer, and a spatially variable wettability layer covering the dielectric layer. As depicted herein, the spatially variable wettability layer may include a plurality of portions having different contact angles, one or more contact angle gradients, or both."

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