US Patent Issued to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING/MCGILL UNIVERSITY on March 31 for "Microfluidic plasmonic color reading chips and methods" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,340, issued on March 31, was assigned to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING/MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal).

"Microfluidic plasmonic color reading chips and methods" was invented by Sara Mahshid (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Canada), Mahsa Jalali (Montreal), Tamer Abdelwahab (Montreal) and Carolina Del Real Mata (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a microfluidic chip for sensing an analyte in a sample by colorimetry. The microfluidic chip comprises: an inlet adapted to receive the sample; an incubation chamber having an incubation chamber inlet fluidly connected to the inlet downstream thereof, to incu...