ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,905, issued on April 14, was assigned to Zhejiang Dapu Biotechnology Co. Ltd. (Jiaxing, China).
"Droplet generator" was invented by Hongbo Zhou (Zhejiang, China), Ruyuan Song (Zhejiang, China) and Xiaonan Xu (Zhejiang, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a droplet generator. The droplet generator includes a large-corner continuous U-shaped flow channel on the encoded microsphere flow channel. Controlling the turning radius of the continuous U-shaped flow channel prevents the blockage resulted from accumulation of microfibers in the encoded microsphere suspension at the turn of the continuous U-shaped ...