ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,984, issued on March 4, was assigned to INOREVIA (Paris).
"Method of manipulating droplets in a channel" was invented by Amel Bendali (Courbevoie, France) and Julien Autebert (Le Kremlin Bicetre, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of manipulating droplets in a channel area, comprising: -providing a flow of carrier fluid in the channel area; -providing at least one droplet of a first fluid and at least one droplet of a second fluid within the carrier fluid, the first fluid and the second fluid being immiscible with the carrier fluid; -displacing the droplet of first fluid and the droplet of second ...