US Patent Issued to Numerical Design on March 25 for "Microfluidic-based apparatus and method for vaporization of liquids" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,126, issued on March 25, was assigned to Numerical Design Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Microfluidic-based apparatus and method for vaporization of liquids" was invented by Carl D. Meinhart (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Brian Piorek (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Nicholas B. Judy (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for vaporizing liquid into the surrounding environment, including directing liquid from a liquid source to a vaporization port where the vaporization port has lateral dimensions varying from 10 um to 300 um, applying heat to the liquid in the vaporization port with an at least one heating ...