US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Dec. 9 for "Microfluidic device and method of preparing a cell model for disease associated with cancer" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,025, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong).

"Microfluidic device and method of preparing a cell model for disease associated with cancer" was invented by Bee Luan Khoo (Hong Kong), Song Lin Chua (Hong Kong) and Yanlin Deng (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a microfluidic device comprising: a microfluidic device for preparing a cell model, comprising: a housing having at least three layers; a first inlet area at a top layer and at one end of the housing for receiving a first mixture comprising cells; a second inlet area a...