ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,466, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Fluidic rotary valve" was invented by Konstantin Shoykhet (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Thomas Ortmann (Straubenhardt/Ottenhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid valve, for a sample separation device such as for liquid chromatography, includes a rotor, a stator, and external terminals for fluidically connecting one or more components. By rotating the rotor, different fluidic coupling and/or decoupling states between components are adjustable. Ports are connectable with one or more external terminals. A first channel is formed along a ...