US Patent Issued on July 15 for "Sperm selection device, kit, and methods" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,991, issued on July 15.

"Sperm selection device, kit, and methods" was invented by David Sinton (Toronto), Jason Riordon (Toronto) and Mohammad Simchi (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for selecting sperm includes a stack of a plurality of layers of a material. The stack has an inlet end and an outlet end. Each layer of the material includes a plurality of sperm selection microchannels. Each sperm selection microchannel has a respective microchannel inlet at the inlet end of the stack and extends to a respective microchannel outlet at the outlet end of the stack."

The patent was filed on April 23, 2021, under Applicat...