US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY on May 26 for "Method and apparatus for generating droplet array on microfluidic chip" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,708, issued on May 26, was assigned to SHANGHAI JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Method and apparatus for generating droplet array on microfluidic chip" was invented by Feng Shen (Shanghai), Haijun Qu (Shanghai), Weiyuan Lyu (Shanghai) and Yan Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for generating a droplet array on a microfluidic chip, comprising the following steps: assembling an upper chip and a lower chip to an initial position, a fluid channel of the upper chip partially or completely covering a microporous array of the lower chip; injecting a solution into a chip, the solution being pa...