US Patent Issued to Pattern Bioscience on Feb. 17 for "Microfluidic chips including a gutter to facilitate loading thereof and related methods" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,894, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Pattern Bioscience Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Microfluidic chips including a gutter to facilitate loading thereof and related methods" was invented by Ross Johnson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic chip can comprise a body and a microfluidic network defined by the body. The network can include one or more inlet ports, a test volume, and one or more flow paths extending between the inlet port(s) and the test volume. Along each of the flow path(s), fluid is permitted to flow from one of the inlet port(s), through at least one droplet-generating region in which a minimum cro...