US Patent Issued to Transportation IP Holdings on April 7 for "Fluid control device and method" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,971, issued on April 7, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Fluid control device and method" was invented by Harsha Vardhana Chikmangalore Manjunath (Bangalore, India), Mahantesh Mallappa Hosur (Bangalore, India), Jingjun Zhang (Erie, Pa.), Ravikumar Dhulipalla (Bangalore, India) and Anand Gosbal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid control device includes a first conduit having a first end and a second end, and a first fluid that moves within the first conduit between the first end and the second end. The first conduit includes an interior surface defining a cavity of the first condu...