ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,951, issued on March 24, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Devices and methods for mixing liquids by moving said liquids back and forth between a pump and a measuring cell, and physicochemical analysis of the liquids mixed in this manner" was invented by Sylvain Broussard (Laudun, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic device and a method for mixing liquids by moving the liquids back-and-forth between a chamber of a piston pump and a cavity of a spectrophotometric measuring cell. The disclosure also relates to physicochemical analysis of a mixture directly within t...