US Patent Issued to Aline on April 14 for "Fluid-actuated microfluidic membrane pump with differently-sized inlet and outlet ports" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,342, issued on April 14, was assigned to Aline Inc. (Signal Hill, Calif.).

"Fluid-actuated microfluidic membrane pump with differently-sized inlet and outlet ports" was invented by Stefano Begolo (Inglewood, Calif.) and Leanna M. Levine (San Pedro, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic pump with a movable drive membrane (diaphragm), a pumping chamber, at least two fluidic ports on one side of the diaphragm, and at least one control port on an opposing side of the diaphragm is provided. A flexible drive membrane intersects the pumping chamber such that a pressure chamber is created on the side of the drive membrane whi...