US Patent Issued to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory on June 17 for "Acoustic separation of particles for bioprocessing" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,235, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Acoustic separation of particles for bioprocessing" was invented by Jason O. Fiering (Boston) and Kenneth T. Kotz (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for separating particles in a biofluid includes pretreating the biofluid by introducing an additive, flowing the pretreated biofluid through a microfluidic separation channel, and applying acoustic energy to the microfluidic separation channel. A system for microfluidic separation, capable of separating target particles from non-target particles in a biofluid includes...