US Patent Issued to The Chinese University of Hong Kong on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for controlled membrane disruption" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,912, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shatin, China).

"Systems and methods for controlled membrane disruption" was invented by Yi-Ping Ho (Ma On Shan, China), Michael Kenneth Chan (Kowloon Tong, China), Ming Ming Marianne Lee (Kowloon, China), Chung Hong Nathaniel Wong (Quarry Bay, China) and MD Habibur Rahman (Hung Hom, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A module of microfluidic device used for applying shear stress to cells (501) in order to deliver payloads (502) to the cells (501). The module includes cross junction modules (105), serpentine modules and squeezing-relaxing modules (1101). T...