US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 2 for "Microchannel device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,414, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Microchannel device" was invented by Takeshi Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroki Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Miura (Kanagawa, Japan), Keiji Miyazaki (Tokyo), Makoto Fukatsu (Shizuoka, Japan), Akihisa Matsukawa (Tokyo), Takayuki Kanazawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Keigo Mizusawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Masanori Seki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masanori Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a microchannel device, which has high hydrophobicity, high mechanical strength, and safety and also has high solvent resistance, and thus has wider applicability. The microchannel...