ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,371, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft fur angewandte Forschung e.V. (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany).
"Apparatus and method for transporting magnetic particles" was invented by Sebastian Hin (Freiburg, Germany), Konstantinos Mitsakakis (Freiburg, Germany), Markus Rombach (Freiburg, Germany) and Nils Paust (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for transporting magnetic particles. The apparatus can comprise a substrate that can be configured for rotating around an axis of rotation. Further, fluidic structures can be arranged in the substrate, which can comprise an obliq...