US Patent Issued to INGURAN on July 29 for "Systems for high throughput sperm sorting" (New Zealander, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,661, issued on July 29, was assigned to INGURAN LLC (Navasota, Texas).

"Systems for high throughput sperm sorting" was invented by Johnathan Charles Sharpe (Hamilton, New Zealand), Nemanya Sedoglavich (Boston), Blair Morad (Belmont, Mass.) and Donald Francis Perrault Jr. (Brighton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to methods for sorting sperm cells in a microfluidic chip. In particular, various steps are incorporated to align and orienting sperm in flow channels, as well as, to determining sperm orientation and measure relative DNA content for analysis and/or sorting."

The patent was filed on Aug. 5, 2024...