US Patent Issued to The Governing Council of the University of Toronto on May 20 for "Microfluidic devices and methods of use" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,898, issued on May 20, was assigned to The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (Toronto).

"Microfluidic devices and methods of use" was invented by Shana Olwyn Kelley (Toronto), Edward Sargent (Toronto), David Philpott (Toronto), Peter Aldridge (Toronto), Stephane Angers (Mississauga, Canada), Jason Moffat (Toronto), Barbara Mair (Toronto) and Sanna Masud (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microfluidic devices, kits systems and methods are provided for high throughput phenotypic separation of magnetically labelled cell samples. The devices and methods can be used for example to sort cells based on level of...