US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS on Sept. 9 for "Self-cleaning device and methods relating thereto" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,479, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS (Dallas).

"Self-cleaning device and methods relating thereto" was invented by Yijie Jiang (Dallas), Guanying Li (Dallas) and Gary Tejeda-Godinez (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-cleaning device and methods relating thereto can include a base, a plurality of channels formed in a first surface of the base, where the plurality of channels divide the first surface of the base into a plurality of sections, a plurality of cavities formed within the base, where each cavity of the plurality of cavities are disposed adjacent a corresponding section of the pluralit...