ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,840, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CYTOAURORA BIOTECHNOLOGIES INC. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Contactless selection device, light sensing structure thereof, and biological particle selection apparatus" was invented by Chung-Er Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Sheng-Wen Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Hsin-Cheng Ho (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contactless selection device, a light sensing structure thereof, and a biological particle selection apparatus are provided. The light sensing structure includes a substrate, an insulating layer, an electrode layer, and a photoelectric layer, the latter two of w...