ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,876, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Microfluidic mixers" was invented by Carson Denison (Corvallis, Ore.), Richard W. Seaver (Corvallis, Ore.), Erik D. Torniainen (Corvallis, Ore.), Pavel Kornilovich (Corvallis, Ore.), Alexander Govyadinov (Corvallis, Ore.), Anand Samuel Jebakumar (Corvallis, Ore.) and Oumnia El Fajri (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example microfluidic mixer can include an inlet microfluidic channel portion and a fluid splitting channel portion including an overpass microfluidic channel to receive fluid from a first side of the inlet microfl...