ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,005, issued on July 21, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for reaction and transport engineering via cellular fluidics" was invented by Nikola Dudukovic (Hayward, Calif.), Sarah Baker (Dublin, Calif.), Victor Alfred Beck (Livermore, Calif.), Swetha Chandrasekaran (Dublin, Calif.), Joshua R. Deotte (Livermore, Calif.), Eric B. Duoss (Danville, Calif.), Jeremy Taylor Feaster (Fremont, Calif.), Jennifer Marie Knipe (Oakland, Calif.), Julie Mancini (Livermore, Calif.), James Oakdale (Castro Valley, Calif.), Fang Qian (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Marcus A. Worsley (Hayward, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the...