US Patent Issued to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES on March 24 for "Devices for micro gas chromatography and methods of making and uses thereof" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,893, issued on March 24, was assigned to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Devices for micro gas chromatography and methods of making and uses thereof" was invented by Masoud Agah (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Micro gas chromatographic devices are provided having a microfluidic separation column and a plurality of capillaries where the capillaries have been independently configured in terms of the capillary length, capillary width, the packing density and packing geometry of the capillary using one or more micro pillars, the tortuosity of the capillary path, and the presence and identit...