US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG VERSITECH, Southern University of Science and Technology on Sept. 22 for "Opto chip-based viscometer" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,716, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG VERSITECH Ltd. (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen, China).

"Opto chip-based viscometer" was invented by Zhiqin Chu (Hong Kong), Yumeng Luo (Shenzhen, China) and Kwai Hei Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An opto chip for detecting a physical parameter of a liquid sample, comprising an optical structure monolithically integrated with a substrate layer and a functional layer, wherein the substrate layer is light-transmissive and configured to have an upper surface for receiving a droplet of the liquid sample...