US Patent Issued to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE on June 3 for "Isolating live cells after high-throughput, long-term, time-lapse microscopy" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,901, issued on June 3, was assigned to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Isolating live cells after high-throughput, long-term, time-lapse microscopy" was invented by Scott Luro (Cambridge, Mass.), Burak Okumus (Cambridge, Mass.) and Johan Paulsson (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic device comprises a cell flow layer and a control layer. The cell flow layer includes a growth channel, a collection channel, a plurality of bridge channels connecting the growth channel and the collection channel, a plurality of bridge valve portions, and a plurality of cell growth trenches coupled t...