MICRONEEDLE, MICROCONE, AND PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY FABRICATION METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20220347450A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-03

    申请号:US17862315

    申请日:2022-07-11

    Abstract: Lithography fabrication methods for producing polymeric microneedles, microprobes, and other micron-sized structures with sharp tips. The fabrication process utilizes a single-step bottom-up exposure of photosensitive resin through a photomask micro-pattern, with a corresponding change/increase in refractive index of the resin creating a meta-state waveguide within the resin which focuses down additional transmitted energy and forms a converging shape (first harmonic microcone). Energy is diffracted through the tip of the first harmonic microcone as a second harmonic beam to form a second converging shape (second harmonic shape) adjacent the first microcone, followed by additional tertiary harmonic microcones, which can be built upon these structures with application of additional energy.

    MINIMALLY INVASIVE SKIN BIOPSY METHOD USING MICRONEEDLE PATCH

    公开(公告)号:US20210345996A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-11

    申请号:US17380258

    申请日:2021-07-20

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a minimally-invasive skin biopsy method. The minimally-invasive skin biopsy method according to the present disclosure includes: preparing a microneedle patch; attaching the microneedle patch to a skin of an object; maintaining a state in which the microneedle patch is attached to the skin of the object for a predetermined period of time; and detaching the microneedle patch from the skin of the object after the predetermined period of time, and analyzing a protein component of the object, which adheres to a microneedle of the microneedle patch. The microneedle is made of a biocompatible polymer substance.

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