US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on May 12 for "Microfluidic device design for extraction and phase separation for organic solvent purification" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,184, issued on May 12, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Microfluidic device design for extraction and phase separation for organic solvent purification" was invented by Bin Pan (Los Angeles) and Noah Malmstadt (Altadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A purification system for ionic liquid solvents includes an ionic liquid source that includes a first flow controller configured to provide a first flow stream at a first flow rate where the first flow stream including an ionic liquid requiring purification. An extraction liquid source provides a second flow stream including an extraction liquid th...