US Patent Issued to Merck Patent on Dec. 23 for "Multi-branch static mixers" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,647, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Merck Patent GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Multi-branch static mixers" was invented by Thomas Coton (Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A static mixer (100), comprising a static mixer housing, having an inlet port (120) for receiving a fluid, a channel (104) in fluid communication with the inlet port (120), a raised rib along a perimeter of the channel (104), a flow splitter for splitting the fluid into a first stream (106a) and a second stream (106b) within channels, a second flow splitter for splitting the first stream (106a) into a third stream (110a) and a fourth st...