ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,898, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft fuer angewandte Forschung e.V. (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany).

"Negative pressure switching of liquid" was invented by Jan Lueddecke (Neuenburg am Rhein, Germany), Nils Paust (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany), Gustav Grether (Muehlheim, Germany) and Ehsan Mahmodi Arjmand (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluidics module has first fluidics structures having a first fluid chamber, second fluidics structures having a second fluid chamber, a first connection having a fluidic resistance between the first fluid chamber and the second fluid chamber, third...