US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics on April 22 for "Acoustophoresis devices having conductive electrodes and methods" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,375, issued on April 22, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Acoustophoresis devices having conductive electrodes and methods" was invented by Jeffrey Jasperse (Newton, Mass.), Peter Paulicka (Forchheim, Germany), Michael Palombo (South Boston, Mass.), Ramona Seliger (Wiesenttal-Muggendorf, Germany) and Paul Benson (Quincy, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustophoresis device having a sample vessel and a piezo transducer is described. The sample vessel has an outer surface, a microchannel within confines of the outer surface, a first port extending through the outer surface to the microcha...