US Patent Issued to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften on March 11 for "Apparatus and method for simultaneous imaging and execution of contact-free directed hydrodynamic flow" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,136, issued on March 11, was assigned to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften E.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for simultaneous imaging and execution of contact-free directed hydrodynamic flow" was invented by Moritz Kreysing (Dresden, Germany), Anatol Fritsch (Dresden, Germany) and Matthaeus Mittasch (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for simultaneous imaging and executing contact-free directed hydrodynamic flow in a specimen. At least one light source dynamically heats the interior and/or a surface of the specimen via a light beam, the beam of the at least one light source is directe...