US Patent Issued to Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics on Feb. 24 for "Microfluidic device and method" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,688, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Inc. (Raritan, N.J.).

"Microfluidic device and method" was invented by Erik Mikael Olsson (Uppsala, Sweden), Austin Derfus (Solana Beach, Calif.), Armando Tovar (San Diego), Justin Davidson (San Diego), Tuan Do (San Diego), Paul Crivelli (San Diego) and Matthew Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination of components in a capillary flow channel uses capillary forces to passively control the movement of liquid samples within a microfluidic device. To detect a target, a liquid sample introduced to a proximal portion of capillary channel of a microfluid...