ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,176, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).
"Microfluidic bi-directional migration assay" was invented by Ayush Garg (Columbus, Ohio), Travis Jones (Columbus, Ohio), Sarah Bushman (Columbus, Ohio), Jessica Ferree (Columbus, Ohio), Vishwanath Subramaniam (Columbus, Ohio), Jonathan Song (Columbus, Ohio) and Deepa Subramaniam (Columbus, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are devices and methods for measuring the effect of chemokines and electric fields on cell migration. This approach is inherently non-contact and does not require injection of current. For example, disclose...