US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Nov. 18 for "Recirculation mechanism using elastic membrane" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,497, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Recirculation mechanism using elastic membrane" was invented by Yujia Liu (Irvine, Calif.), Marc Madou (Irvine, Calif.), Roya Shiri (Irvine, Calif.), Alfonso Shin (Irvine, Calif.) and Snehan Peshin (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a recirculation system for use in microfluidic centrifugal disc platforms for reusing and mixing an entire sample. The present invention features a system comprising a reservoir, an input channel, a detection array, a pressure chamber, and a recirculation...