US Patent Issued to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory on April 22 for "Actuation of microchannels for optimized acoustophoresis" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,398, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc..

"Actuation of microchannels for optimized acoustophoresis" was invented by Jason Fiering (Boston) and Rebecca Christianson (Southborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods of the present disclosure provide techniques for the design and use of an intermediate or transitional plate or block designed to couple acoustic energy at a given frequency from a transducer, such as a piezoelectric transducer, to one or more acoustophoretic devices, such as microfluidic channels, such that driving the chip occurs with a controlled waveleng...