US Patent Issued to New York Stem Cell Foundation on March 11 for "Microfluidic system and method of use thereof" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,195, issued on March 11, was assigned to New York Stem Cell Foundation Inc. (New York).

"Microfluidic system and method of use thereof" was invented by Scott Noggle (New Rochelle, N.Y.) and Stephen Chang (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention concerns an integrated microfluidic system that utilizes microfluidic chip technology to receive a patient sample including cells, expand the cells, reprogram the expanded cells and then store the reprogrammed cells in a microfluidic chip. These microfluidic chips with stored reprogrammed cells may then be used in scenarios of genetic differentiation into specific cell typ...