ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,773, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG LIFE PUBLIC WELFARE FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for encapsulating cell in liquid droplet for single-cell analysis" was invented by Woong-Yang Park (Seoul, South Korea), Hui-Sung Moon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Shin-Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kwanghwi Je (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and a device for encapsulating a cell in droplet for single-cell analysis, or a method and a device for forming droplet for single-cell analysis. According to the method and the device of one aspect, by using the effects of inerti...