US Patent Issued to Orca Biosystems on Feb. 18 for "Methods and apparatuses for sorting target particles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,770, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Orca Biosystems Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatuses for sorting target particles" was invented by Ivan K. Dimov (Mountain View, Calif.), Nathaniel Fernhoff (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Lagnajeet Pradhan (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for sorting target particles. In various embodiments, the disclosure provides a cassette for sorting target particles, methods for sorting target particles, methods of loading a microchannel for maintaining sample material viability, methods of quantifying sample material, and an optic...