ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,834, issued on March 3, was assigned to PRECIPHOS (Strasbourg, France).

"Method for manufacturing an analysis chip and analysis chip" was invented by Pascal Pflimlin (Baldersheim, France) and Bernard Ludwig (Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an analysis chip for analysing a biological sample (1), which method comprises providing a matrix (10) formed in a solid support material in which at least one through hole has been formed (11) and at least one pellet (3), cut out of a sheet (6) of solid and porous analysis material; inserting at least one pellet (3) into the at le...