US Patent Issued to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO on July 22 for "System for identifying and targeting individual cells within a heterogeneous population for selective extraction of cellular content" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,982, issued on July 22, was assigned to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (Toronto).

"System for identifying and targeting individual cells within a heterogeneous population for selective extraction of cellular content" was invented by Aaron Ray Wheeler (Toronto), Michael Dean Chamberlain (Toronto), Julian Lucas Lamanna (Toronto) and Michael David Murdoch Dryden (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for identifying and targeting individual cells within a cell population for selective extraction of cellular content. The system includes a digital microfluidic device having at least one hydrophilic site for r...