US Patent Issued to ETH Zurich on Sept. 16 for "Method and microfluidic device for studying cell deformations" (Swiss, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,564, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ETH Zurich (Zurich).

"Method and microfluidic device for studying cell deformations" was invented by Andrew De Mello (Zurich, Switzerland), Stavros Stavrakis (Zurich, Switzerland), Xiaobao Cao (Guangzhou, China), Mohammad Asghari (Zurich, Switzerland), Mahmut Aslan (Mannedorf, Switzerland), Bogdan Mateescu (Zurich, Switzerland) and Yingchao Meng (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of investigating cell deformations, a sample fluid including cells suspended in a suspending medium is provided. A flow of the sample fluid through a focusing microchannel is established....