US Patent Issued to Cell Microsystems, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Sept. 16 for "Automated collection of a specified number of cells" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,981, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Cell Microsystems Inc (Research Triangle Park, N.C.) and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Automated collection of a specified number of cells" was invented by Steven C. Gebhart (Durham, N.C.), Robert W. McClellan (Apex, N.C.), Nicholas C. Trotta (Durham, N.C.), Nancy L. Allbritton (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Peter Joseph Attayek (Durham, N.C.) and Paul Michael Armistead (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide an automated method and system to isolate and collect cells using computerized analysis of images o...