US Patent Issued to Dartmouth Ocean Technologies on March 25 for "Magnetically tunable microfluidic check valve, microfluidic pumps, syringe pump, and methods of manufacturing thereof" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,060, issued on March 25, was assigned to Dartmouth Ocean Technologies Inc. (Dartmouth, Canada).

"Magnetically tunable microfluidic check valve, microfluidic pumps, syringe pump, and methods of manufacturing thereof" was invented by Sean Christopher Morgan (Halifax, Canada), Vincent Joseph Sieben (Bedford, Canada), Edward Arthur Luy (Halifax, Canada) and Gregory Eric Begin (Enfield, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ball-type check valve is disclosed that is passively sealed by an embedded permanent magnet and a gasket. The permanent magnet is used to increase the strength of the valve seal while still allowing forward flow, an...