US Patent Issued to Oxford Nanopore Technologies on June 30 for "Microfluidic device" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,839, issued on June 30, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Microfluidic device" was invented by David Waterman (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic device comprises: a sensor provided in a sensing chamber; a liquid inlet and liquid outlet connecting to the sensor chamber for respectively passing liquid into and out of the sensing chamber and; a sample input port in fluid communication with the liquid inlet; a liquid collection channel downstream of the sensing chamber outlet; a flow path interruption between the liquid outlet and the liquid collection channel, pr...