US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Sept. 30 for "Sorting particles in a microfluidic device" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,521, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Sorting particles in a microfluidic device" was invented by Ravi Kapur (Sharon, Mass.), Kyle C. Smith (Cambridge, Mass.) and Mehmet Toner (Charlestown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic device includes a particle sorting region having a first, second and third microfluidic channels, a first array of islands separating the first microfluidic channel from the second microfluidic channel, and a second array of islands separating the first microfluidic channel from the third microfluidic channel, in which the island arrays and the microfluid...