US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on June 10 for "Longitudinal impedance pump" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,143, issued on June 10, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Longitudinal impedance pump" was invented by Niema Mohammed Pahlevan (Los Angeles) and Arian Aghilinejad (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A longitudinal stretching based wave pumping system and corresponding methods. A stretchable tube is configured to hold a fluid. An actuator is coupled to the tube. The actuator is configured to longitudinally stretch and release the stretchable tube to create waves on the stretchable tube and within the fluid that propagate and reflect at one or more reflection sites along the stretchable tube to c...