Patents by Inventor Zoraida P. Aguilar

Zoraida P. Aguilar has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Microfluidics and small volume mixing based on redox magnetohydrodynamics methods
    Patent number: 7147441
    Abstract: Microfluidic channels utilizing magnetohydrodynamics are used to pump very small volumes of solution. The channels have electrodes along the walls of the channel and a current carrying species within the solution carries the current through the solution. The electric field generated by the use of the current carrying species is perpendicular to a magnetic field applied to the channel. The combination of the electric and magnetic fields causes the solution to flow through the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, N.A.
    Inventors: Ingrid Fritsch, Christopher S. Carter, Zoraida P. Aguilar
  • Microfluidics and small volume mixing based on redox magnetohydrodynamics methods
    Publication number: 20030118453
    Abstract: Microfluidic channels utilizing magnetohydrodynamics are used to pump very small volumes of solution. The channels have electrodes along the walls of the channel and a current carrying species within the solution carries the current through the solution. The electric field generated by the use of the current carrying species is perpendicular to a magnetic field applied to the channel. The combination of the electric and magnetic fields causes the solution to flow through the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: Ingrid Fritsch, Christopher S. Carter, Zoraida P. Aguilar