US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on July 14 for "Flow channel device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,789, issued on July 14, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Flow channel device" was invented by Masaki Sato (Yokohama, Japan), Masaru Nagata (Kirishima, Japan), Tomoyuki Ono (Kyotanabe, Japan) and Yuuki Nakayama (Kirishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow channel device includes a first storage part that stores liquid, a first flow channel through which liquid in the first storage part passes, and a second flow channel through which liquid passes to the first storage part, in which a thickness of the first flow channel is smaller than a thickness of the second flow channel."

The patent was filed on July 27, 2...