ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,463, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Continuous-flow, well mixed, microfluidic crystallization device for screening polymorphs, morphologies and crystallization kinetics at controlled supersaturation" was invented by Meenesh R. Singh (Naperville, Ill.) and Paria Coliaie (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a microfluidic system for the screening of polymorphs, morphology, and crystallization kinetics under well-mixed, continuous-flow at controlled supersaturations. The disclosure also relates to a method for screening crystalline poly...