US Patent Issued to AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY on June 17 for "Coupled sorting and electric treatment of biological cells" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,284, issued on June 17, was assigned to AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Vienna).

"Coupled sorting and electric treatment of biological cells" was invented by Klemens Wassermann (Korneuburg, Austria), Terje Wimberger (Vienna) and Johannes Peham (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides the following method for lysis or electroporation of cells in a biological sample: passing cells of the sample, suspended in a fluid, through a flow path with a preset flow speed, the flow path runs through a detection apparatus for detecting individual cells and the flow path includes at least two electrodes for...