US Patent Issued to Perosphere Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Microfluidic chip-based, universal coagulation assay" (Tennessee, New York, California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,903, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Perosphere Technologies Inc. (Danbury, Conn.).

"Microfluidic chip-based, universal coagulation assay" was invented by Sasha Bakhru (Ridgefield, Conn.), Bryan Laulicht (New York), Stefan Zappe (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Solomon Steiner (Franklin, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic, chip-based assay device has been developed for measuring physical properties of an analyte (particularly, whole blood or whole blood derivatives). The technologies can be applied to measure clotting times of whole blood or blood derivatives, determine the effects of anticoagulant drugs on the kinetics of...