US Patent Issued to XIHUA UNIVERSITY, QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY on April 21 for "Magnetic fluid micropump" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,176, issued on April 21, was assigned to XIHUA UNIVERSITY (Chengdu, China) and QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Xining, China).

"Magnetic fluid micropump" was invented by Zhenggui Li (Chengdu, China), Ye Wang (Chengdu, China), Xing Zhou (Chengdu, China) and Decai Li (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic fluid micropump includes an annular flow channel, a fixed magnetic assembly and a driving magnetic assembly. A magnetic fluid is provided inside the annular flow channel. The fixed magnetic assembly is arranged outside the annular flow channel in a stationary manner so that a part of the magnetic fluid is attracte...