ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,515, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Florida Atlantic University Research Corp. (Boca Raton, Fla.).
"Systems and methods for sperm selection" was invented by Waseem Asghar (Boca Raton, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for sorting sperm include a housing and a microfluidic system supported by the housing. The systems also include two or more inlets providing access to the microfluidic system to deliver sperm or semen and fluid to the microfluidic system, as well as an outlet for harvesting sorted sperm. The systems include a flow channel that provides a flow path for sperm from an inlet to an outlet while sperm travels aga...