ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,168, issued on July 15, was assigned to INGURAN LLC (Navasota, Texas).

"Method for improved sperm cell populations" was invented by Juan Moreno (College Station, Texas), Kenneth Michael Evans (College Station, Texas), Ramakrishnan Vishwanath (Hamilton, New Zealand) and Clara Gonzalez-Marin (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods of flow-cytometrically processing sperm cells in which greater than 25% of sperm cells in the population to be processed have abnormal morphology."

The patent was filed on April 13, 2023, under Application No. 18/134,451.

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