US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Dec. 2 for "Sorting biological and non-biological moieties using magnetic levitation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,419, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Sorting biological and non-biological moieties using magnetic levitation" was invented by Murat Baday (Menlo Park, Calif.), Naside Gozde Durmus (Palo Alto, Calif.), Semih Calamak (Palo Alto, Calif.), Utkan Demirci (Stanford, Calif.), Ronald W. Davis (Palo Alto, Calif.), Lars Steinmetz (San Francisco), Jaeyoung Yang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Thiruppathiraja Chinnasamy (Mountain View, Calif.) and Alessandro Tocchio (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heterogeneous population of cells are separated and collect...