ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,279, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ASTRAVEUS (Paris).

"Microfluidic liquid delivery device" was invented by Jeremie Laurent (Villeurbanne, France) and Xue Hou (Suresnes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid delivery device that includes a channel having an inner section lower than 9 mm2 and inner volume lower than 50 mL, a gas mass flowmeter connected to the inlet of the channel, and a pressure control unit suitable to control pressure inside the channel by flowing gas through the gas flowmeter."

The patent was filed on June 22, 2021, under Application No. 18/003,207.

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