US Patent Issued to Shennon Biotechnologies on Aug. 19 for "Microfluidic devices for high throughput screening of cell-cell interactions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,914, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Shennon Biotechnologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Microfluidic devices for high throughput screening of cell-cell interactions" was invented by Yih Yang Chen (San Francisco), Kaveh Milaninia (San Jose, Calif.) and Li Sun (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and microfluidic devices for successfully co-encapsulating two or more cells in a high-throughput, high efficiency manner. Cells are organized into two or more ordered streams flowing through separate microchannels of the microfluidic device. Cells in ordered streams are sufficiently spaced such that at a junction...