US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE, ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE MECANIQUE ET DES MICROTECHNIQUES on Dec. 30 for "Method for generating a flow in a microdrop and device for implementing the method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,557, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY (Gif-sur-Yvette, France), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE (Paris) and ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE MECANIQUE ET DES MICROTECHNIQUES (Besancon, France).

"Method for generating a flow in a microdrop and device for implementing the method" was invented by Etienne Herth (Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France), Thomas Baron (Besancon, France) and Philippe Brunet (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a stirring in a fluid microdrop, the volume of which is preferably greater than several tens of nanolitres, using a...