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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 29, 2016
Applicant:

Cambridge Enterprise Ltd., Cambride, Cambridgeshire, GB;

Inventors:

Thomas Mueller, Cambridge, GB;

Tuomas Knowles, Cambridge, GB;

Paolo Arosio, Cambridge, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 11/04 (2006.01); G01N 15/02 (2006.01); B01L 3/00 (2006.01); G01N 13/00 (2006.01); G01N 11/00 (2006.01); G01N 1/30 (2006.01); G01N 33/487 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 11/04 (2013.01); B01L 3/502761 (2013.01); B01L 3/502776 (2013.01); G01N 1/30 (2013.01); G01N 11/00 (2013.01); G01N 13/00 (2013.01); G01N 15/02 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0867 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0883 (2013.01); B01L 2400/0472 (2013.01); G01N 33/487 (2013.01); G01N 2013/003 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method is provided for measuring the viscosity of a fluid sample. The method comprising the steps of: (ii) providing a flow of the fluid sample; (iii) providing a component flow, wherein the component flow is a flow of the fluid sample further comprising a tracer component; (iv) generating a laminar flow of the flow (ii) with the flow (iii) in a diffusion channel, such as a microfluidic diffusion channel (); (iv) measuring the lateral diffusion of the tracer component across the flows; and (v) determining the viscosity of the fluid from the measured diffusion profile, wherein the size of the tracer component is known or is determined.


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