ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,812, issued on May 6, was assigned to MYMA MEDICAL Ltd. (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain).
"Microfluidics system" was invented by Mozafar Saadat (Birmingham, Great Britain), Arran James Richard Hughes (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Amir Mohammad Hajiyavand (Birmingham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to methods and systems for isolating individual sperm from a semen sample using microfluidics. Examples include a microfluidics system for isolating individual sperm from a semen sample, the system including: a first laminar flow channel extending between a first inlet and a first outlet; a second ...