US Patent Issued to LifeImmune on Oct. 7 for "Rapid individualized whole blood chip for antibiotic, drug, and food allergies" (Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,242, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LifeImmune Inc. (Baltimore).

"Rapid individualized whole blood chip for antibiotic, drug, and food allergies" was invented by Eugene Shenderov (Baltimore) and Dongshin Kim (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention describes a whole blood assay chip that enables separation of the cellular compartment from surrounding plasma, facilitating multiplexed measurement of otherwise difficult to detect soluble factors produced upon cellular stimulation. The invention is a microfluidic chip with an incubation chamber comprising an inlet, an outlet, and a fluidic barrier. Using t...