US Patent Issued to QATCH TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 24 for "Apparatus and method for real time measuring of rheological properties of a fluid" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,518, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QATCH TECHNOLOGIES (Durham, N.C.).

"Apparatus and method for real time measuring of rheological properties of a fluid" was invented by Zehra Parlak (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided to measure viscosity of an analyte using a microfluidic piezoelectric sensor including a channel on an active area of a piezoelectric resonator substrate. The microfluidic piezoelectric sensor is driven so that the active area of the piezoelectric resonator substrate generates shear motion in a direction of shear motion displacement that is parallel with respect to a first surfac...