US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, Nanyang Technological University on Oct. 14 for "High-throughput system and method for the temporary permeabilization of cells using lipid bilayers" (American, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,839, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"High-throughput system and method for the temporary permeabilization of cells using lipid bilayers" was invented by Jason N. Belling (Los Angeles), Steven J. Jonas (Los Angeles), Joshua A. A. Jackman (Bradenton, Fla.), Nam-Joon Cho (Singapore) and Paul S. Weiss (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic device is disclosed that is used to process cells for the intracellular delivery of molecules or other cargo. The device includes one or more microchannels disposed in...