ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,314, issued on May 13, was assigned to Resodyn Corp. (Butte, Mont.).

"Continuous acoustic chemical microreactor" was invented by Lawrence C. Farrar (Butte, Mont.), Grayson Sperry (Three Forks, Mont.) and Zachary Ruprecht Martineau (Butte, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous acoustic chemical microreactor system is disclosed. The system includes a continuous process vessel (CPV) and an acoustic agitator coupled to the CPV and configured to agitate the CPV along an oscillation axis. The CPV includes a reactant inlet configured to receive one or more reactants into the CPV, an elongated tube coupled at a first end to the r...