US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College, Brandeis University on March 31 for "Manipulation of fluids, fluid components and reactions in microfluidic systems" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,508, issued on March 31, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.) and Brandeis University (Waltham, Mass.).

"Manipulation of fluids, fluid components and reactions in microfluidic systems" was invented by Seth Fraden (Newton, Mass.), Hakim Boukellal (Paris), Yanwei Jia (Medford, Mass.), Seila Selimovic (Bronx, N.Y.), Amy Rowat (Cambridge, Mass.), Jeremy Agresti (Cambridge, Mass.) and David A. Weitz (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microfluidic structures and methods for manipulating fluids, fluid components, and reactions are provided. In one aspect, such structures and methods can ...