ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,127, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Japan Atomic Energy Agency (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Method of forming a liquid-liquid mixing phase channel group, method of controlling the formation and extinguishment of a liquid-liquid mixing phase channel group, and module therefor" was invented by Hirochika Naganawa (Nakagun, Japan) and Tetsushi Nagano (Nakagun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a liquid-liquid mixing phase channel group, which has the steps of: ejecting the first liquid as droplets into the phase of the second liquid in a two-liquid phase system in which two immiscible liquids oppose each other at an inte...