ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,665, issued on July 8, was assigned to ABS Global Inc. (DeForest, Wis.).

"Cell differentiation based on multi-directional light from a microfluidic chip" was invented by David Appleyard (Madison, Wis.), Daniel McAda (Madison, Wis.), Zheng Xia (Middleton, Wis.), James Maxwell Schiller (Madison, Wis.), Frederick Savage (Austin, Texas), John Walker Rupel II (Madison, Wis.), Timothy Miller (Fitchburg, Wis.) and Alec Fisher (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an approach to differentiating between different particle types in samples flowing through microfluidics chips. A sample may have an initial proportion of a fir...