US Patent Issued on April 8 for "Automated detection and repositioning of micro-objects in microfluidic devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,048, issued on April 8.

"Automated detection and repositioning of micro-objects in microfluidic devices" was invented by Fenglei Du (Fremont, Calif.), Paul M. Lundquist (San Francisco), John A. Tenney (Piedmont, Calif.) and Troy A. Lionberger (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for the automated detection of micro-objects in a microfluidic device. In addition, methods are provided for repositioning micro-objects in a microfluidic device. In addition, methods are provided for separating micro-objects in a spatial region of the microfluidic device."

The patent was filed on Oct. 5, 2020, under Applicat...