US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Dec. 30 for "System and method to use suction to enhance permeabilization and transfection of cells" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,409, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"System and method to use suction to enhance permeabilization and transfection of cells" was invented by Hao Lin (Montgomery, N.J.), Jonathan P. Singer (New Brunswick, N.J.), David I. Shreiber (New Brunswick, N.J.), Jerry W. Shan (New Brunswick, N.J.), Jeffrey D. Zahn (New Brunswick, N.J.), Emran O. Lallow (New Brunswick, N.J.), Juliet M. Melnik (New Brunswick, N.J.) and Nandita Chakrabarty Jhumur (New Brunswick, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for promoting the delivery of a molecule across a cell mem...