US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College, Universitat Augsburg on March 17 for "Acoustic waves in microfluidics" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,401, issued on March 17, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.) and Universitat Augsburg (Augsburg, Germany).

"Acoustic waves in microfluidics" was invented by David A. Weitz (Cambridge, Mass.), Thomas Franke (Augsburg, Germany), Achim Wixforth (Munich), Lothar Schmid (Augsburg, Germany), Jeremy Agresti (Cambridge, Mass.) and Adam R. Abate (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present invention relate to the control and manipulation of fluidic species, for example, in microfluidic systems. In one set of embodiments, droplets may be sorted using surface acoustic w...