US Patent Issued to The University of British Columbia on June 23 for "Continuous flow systems with bifurcating mixers" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,622, issued on June 23, was assigned to The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada).

"Continuous flow systems with bifurcating mixers" was invented by Euan Ramsay (Vancouver, Canada), Robert James Taylor (Vancouver, Canada), Timothy Leaver (Delta, Canada), Andre Wild (Vancouver, Canada), Kevin Ou (Toronto) and Colin Walsh (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are continuous flow systems having bifurcated fluidic flow mixers. The mixers operate, at least partially, by Dean vortexing. Accordingly, the mixers are referred to as Dean Vortex Bifurcating Mixers ("DVBM"). DVBMs utilize Dean vortexing an...