US Patent Issued to Versitech, The Trustees of Princeton University on Nov. 18 for "Apparatus and method for measuring the elasticity of microfibers at high throughput" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,245, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Versitech Ltd. (Hong Kong) and The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.).

"Apparatus and method for measuring the elasticity of microfibers at high throughput" was invented by Yuan Liu (Hong Kong), Anderson Ho Cheung Shum (Hong Kong), Janine K. Nunes (Princeton, N.J.) and Howard A. Stone (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject invention pertains to a new method for measuring the elastic properties of microfibers by rope-coiling. Rope-coiling refers to the buckling of a slender elastic fiber caused by axial compression. A continuous flow microfluidic method enabl...