US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM on Oct. 28 for "Apparatus and methods for medical applications of laser driven microfluid pumps" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,814, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM (Houston).

"Apparatus and methods for medical applications of laser driven microfluid pumps" was invented by Jiming Bao (Pearland, Texas), Wei-Kan Chu (Houston), Feng Lin (Houston), Shuai Yue (Pearland, Texas), Di Chen (Houston) and Dennis McWilliams (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for drug delivery is presented in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. The apparatus includes a laser-driven photoacoustic microfluid pump (LDMP), an open tube capillary including a first end and a second end; the first end disposed on the LDMP, th...