US Patent Issued to BVW Holding on June 30 for "Microstructured field effect device" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,353, issued on June 30, was assigned to BVW Holding AG (Cham, Switzerland).

"Microstructured field effect device" was invented by Lukas Bluecher (Eurasberg, Germany) and Michael Milbocker (Holliston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microstructured device is disclosed utilizing Coulomb field modification of surface energy and electroadhesion to localize a device surface or to levitate a device surface with respect to a target surface. The surface energy modification can be permanent or reversible depending on whether the charge is externally delivered to the device or derived on the device galvanically. The microstructure aspec...