US Patent Issued to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on March 17 for "Microfluidic flow control using direct-current peristaltic pump" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,194, issued on March 17, was assigned to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Microfluidic flow control using direct-current peristaltic pump" was invented by Sunitha Nagrath (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Kaylee J. Smith (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Kenn Oldham (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Jason Smyth (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peristaltic pump-based apparatus for capturing circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from blood is provided that includes a feedback control architecture that uses models of pump operation and measures of internal pressure fluctuations of the pump (e.g., in the form time-varying and/or position-...