US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Dec. 30 for "Device for tissue electrotransfer using a microelectrode" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,423, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Device for tissue electrotransfer using a microelectrode" was invented by Yasir Demiryurek (Somerset, N.J.), Hao Lin (Montgomery, N.J.), Sunshine Littlecreek (Flanders, N.J.), Jerry Shan (Bridgewater, N.J.), David Shreiber (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Miao Yu (Parlin, N.J.) and Jeffrey Zahn (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A minimally invasive penetrating microelectrode array is used to generate localized electric field "hotspots" for delivering biomolecules, such as nucleic acid or protein molecules, into cells l...