US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on Dec. 30 for "Manipulating and assembling micro- and nanoscale objects with capillary forces" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,805, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Manipulating and assembling micro- and nanoscale objects with capillary forces" was invented by Maya Faaborg (Cambridge, Mass.), Cheng Zeng (Cambridge, Mass.), Michael P. Brenner (Cambridge, Mass.), Yohai Bar-Sinai (Cambridge, Mass.), Ahmed Sherif (Cambridge, Mass.) and Vinothan N. Manoharan (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a device comprises a plurality of walls defining one or more channels; wherein the one or more channels have a cross-section in a plane perpendicular to a vertical axis of the devi...