ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,626, issued on May 26, was assigned to STRATEC CONSUMABLES GMBH (Anif, Austria).
"Microfluidic mixer" was invented by Matthias Stangassinger (Bad Duerrnberg, Austria), Michael Schmid (Hallein, Austria), Daniel Horner (Anthering, Austria) and Alfred Paris (Salzburg, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic mixer, formed by two parts, a first part being a substrate having formations defining fluid channels on an outer surface that is directed towards a second part, which is a flexible layer. The flexile layer has formations defining a fluid channel which, when the flexible layer is positioned over the substrate so as to cov...