ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,583, issued on March 25, was assigned to CONVERGENCY (TIANJIN) BIOTECH LTD. (Tianjin, China).
"Method and device for controlling movement of micro-particles in solution using ultra-high frequency sound wave" was invented by Xuexin Duan (Tianjin, China) and Yang Yang (Tianjin, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic control system and method for controlling the movement of target particles in a fluid. The microfluidic system comprises a fluid channel which is provided with an inlet and a plurality of outlets, and one or more ultra-high frequency sound wave resonators which may generate a bulk acoustic wave having a freque...