ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,984, issued on July 22, was assigned to 1087 SYSTEMS INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Use of vibrational spectroscopy for microfluidic liquid measurement" was invented by Matthias Wagner (Cambridge, Mass.) and John Heanue (Manchester, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure concerns a cytometry system including a handling system that enables presentation of single cells to at least one laser source. The laser source is configured to deliver light to a cell within the cells in order to induce bond vibrations in the cellular DNA. The system further includes a detection facility that detects the signature of the bond vibrations, w...