US Patent Issued to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY on Sept. 1 for "System and method for measuring blood flow velocity on a microfluidic chip" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,537, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland).

"System and method for measuring blood flow velocity on a microfluidic chip" was invented by Bryan Schmidt (Cleveland), Umut Gurkan (Cleveland), Erdem Kucukal (Cleveland) and Yucheng Man (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application describes a microfluidic system for measuring blood flow velocity using particle image velocimetry (PIV) and wavelet-based optical flow velocimetry (wOFV) processing to determine one or more hemodynamic parameters. The hemodynamic parameters can include whole blood rheology as well as spatiotemporal variation...