US Patent Issued to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM on July 14 for "Integrated modular on-chip droplet microfluidic screening platform" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,791, issued on July 14, was assigned to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas).

"Integrated modular on-chip droplet microfluidic screening platform" was invented by Adrian R. Guzman (Houston), Arum Han (College Station, Texas) and Paul J. de Figueiredo (Bryan, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated fully integrated on-chip ultra-high-throughput droplet microfluidic screening platform (PolyChip) has been developed that integrates the cultivation and manipulation of cells (e.g., microbial) communities with "on the fly" sorting and analyses. The PolyChip system enables continuous operation of the entire proc...