ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,981, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ZACROS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method for manufacturing microchip for blood coagulation test" was invented by Masato Abe (Tokyo), Takao Sato (Tokyo), Tomoko Wada (Tokyo), Tomoka Nagasato (Tokyo) and Kazuya Hosokawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a microchip for a blood coagulation test includes preparing a substrate which has, in the surface thereof, a groove serving as a flow channel, and has a first through-hole serving as an inlet and provided on one end side of the groove. A film having a surface coated with collagen and/or tissue thromboplastin is prepared so as t...