ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,370, issued on May 27, was assigned to Astrego Diagnostics AB (Uppsala, Sweden).
"Microfluidic device for cell characterization" was invented by Johan Elf (Uppsala, Sweden), Ove Ohman (Uppsala, Sweden), Martin Lovmar (Molndal, Sweden) and Ozden Baltekin (Uppsala, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic device (1) comprises a substrate (10) having spatially defined and separated cell compartments (20) configured to accommodate cells. A respective first end (22) of the spatially defined and separated cell compartments (20) is in fluid connection with a flow input channel (30). The microfluidic device (1) comprises at least...