US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Dec. 9 for "Use of an integrated microfluidic chip for analysis of cell motility and prediction and prognosis of patient survival" (Maryland, Florida, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,037, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Use of an integrated microfluidic chip for analysis of cell motility and prediction and prognosis of patient survival" was invented by Konstantinos Konstantopoulos (Ellicott City, Md.), Colin Paul (Catonsville, Md.), Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Sagar Ramesh Shah (Clemson, S.C.), Alejandro Ruiz-Valls (Baltimore), Christopher Yankaskas (Baltimore), Juan Carlos Martinez-Gutierrez (Baltimore) and Bin Sheng Wong (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention describes an integrated apparatus that enables identificatio...