US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on June 2 for "Multi-mode mechanical swimmer that acts as a rheometer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,812, issued on June 2, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Multi-mode mechanical swimmer that acts as a rheometer" was invented by Eric S. G. Shaqfeh (Oakland, Calif.), Manu Prakash (San Francisco), Laurel Kroo (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Jeremy Patrick Binagia (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved rheometry is provided using an autonomous swimming robot that can be driven at least in an angular velocity mode and in a torque mode. The resulting improved capability can enable measurement of multiple rheological parameters, such as both normal stress ...