TY - PAT T1 - United States Patent: 8318109 - Microfluidic devices for fluid manipulation and analysis Y1 - 2012 A1 - Saltsman, Patrick A1 - Shen, Mingchao A1 - Houkal, Jeffrey M. A1 - Lancaster, Christy A. A1 - Battrell, C. Frederick A1 - Weigl, Bernhard H. AB - The present invention relates to microfluidic devices and methods for manipulating and analyzing fluid samples. The disclosed microfluidic devices utilize a plurality of microfluidic channels, inlets, valves, filter, pumps, liquid barriers and other elements arranged in various configurations to manipulate the flow of a fluid sample in order to prepare such sample for analysis. UR - http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=6&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%22Weigl%3B+Bernhard%22.INNM.&OS=IN/%22Weigl;+Bernhard%22&RS=IN/%22Weigl;+Bernhard%22 ER -