US Patent Issued to CORNELL UNIVERSITY on Feb. 4 for "Magnetic separation of biological entities from fluid sample" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,116, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Magnetic separation of biological entities from fluid sample" was invented by Sasank Vemulapati (Ithaca, N.Y.) and David Erickson (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to, inter alia, devices, systems, and methods for use in the magnetic separation of biological entities from fluid samples. This device includes a magnetic separation chamber configured to receive a fluid sample for magnetic separation, where the magnetic separation chamber includes at least two magnets mounted on the surface or in the wall of the magnetic se...