US Patent Issued to Synova Life Sciences on April 22 for "Separation, dissociation and/or disaggregation of cells using shockwaves or mechanical impacts" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,331, issued on April 22, was assigned to Synova Life Sciences Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Separation, dissociation and/or disaggregation of cells using shockwaves or mechanical impacts" was invented by John Chi (Pasadena, Calif.) and Ben-Chen Chi (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods provided by the present disclosure utilize extracorporeal shockwaves, mechanical impacts and/or principles of lithotripsy to break up a tissue sample into smaller fragments-clusters of cells and/or single cells-after which a desired cellular fraction can be isolated from the sample. Devices provided by the present disclosure deploy focuse...