ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,294, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Microfluidic trapping chip and uses thereof for culture and assay of cell clusters and objects" was invented by Aaron L. Glieberman (Cambridge, Mass.), John P. Ferrier (Cambridge, Mass.), John F. Zimmerman (Boston) and Kevin Kit Parker (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a microfluidic cartridge for automatically hydrodynamically loading objects (e.g., cell clusters) into traps in parallel trapping channels with one object per trap, methods of making such cartridges and methods of use of such car...