US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA on April 1 for "Devices and methods for isolating a migratory cell population" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,305, issued on April 1, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) and THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA (Norman, Okla.).

"Devices and methods for isolating a migratory cell population" was invented by Young-tae Kim (Arlington, Texas), Loan Bui (Arlington, Texas), James Battiste (Edmond, Okla.), Xue Cai (Edmond, Okla.) and Michael Sughrue (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for isolating a migratory cell population from a mixed population of migratory cells and non-migratory cells is described herein. The method comprises placing the mixed population of mig...