ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,416, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cellular Highways Ltd. (Royston, Great Britain).

"Apparatus for sorting microfluidic particles" was invented by Steve Birch (Royston, Great Britain), Mette La Cour (Royston, Great Britain), Matthias Ediger (Royston, Great Britain), Tony Hailes (Royston, Great Britain), Fred Hussain (Royston, Great Britain), Huatao Liu (Royston, Great Britain), Robyn Pritchard (Royston, Great Britain), Salman Samson Rogers (Royston, Great Britain), Allan Sinclair (Royston, Great Britain), Michael Withers (Royston, Great Britain), Gang Xiong (Royston, Great Britain) and Alexander Zhukov (Royston, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. P...