US Patent Issued to Applied Cells on June 24 for "Microfluidic chip for acoustic separation of biological objects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,319, issued on June 24, was assigned to Applied Cells Inc..

"Microfluidic chip for acoustic separation of biological objects" was invented by Bing K. Yen (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yuchen Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic device for sorting biological objects includes a microfluidic chip including a planar substrate having first and second planar surfaces, the planar substrate including first and second networks of channels recessed respectively from the first and second planar surfaces and fluidically connected by way of at least a through-hole in the planar substrate; a first lid attached to the firs...