US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on March 31 for "Combination of DLC and PFPE for EWOD actuation" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,130, issued on March 31, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Combination of DLC and PFPE for EWOD actuation" was invented by Xiong Liu (Singapore), Barish Chakravarty (Singapore), Lihong Zhang (Singapore), Akhil Namboori (Singapore) and Hui Ning Tan (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital microfluidic (DMF) system based on an electrowetting-on-dielectric mechanism includes a substrate, and at least one dielectric layer comprising diamond-like carbon over the substrate. The DMF system also includes a plurality of electrodes connected to the dielectric layer. A voltage source is selectively couplable...