US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Oct. 14 for "Delivery of materials to anucleate cells" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,969, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Delivery of materials to anucleate cells" was invented by Armon R. Sharei (Cambridge, Mass.), Klavs F. Jensen (Lexington, Mass.), James Robbins Abshire (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jacquin Clarence Niles (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current subject matter includes methods, systems, articles, and techniques to deliver material to anucleate cells, such as red blood cells. Using a rapid deformation based microfluidic system, loading of red blood cells with macromolecules of different sizes has been shown. Although deliver...