US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Nov. 11 for "Laser-induced confocal microscope and microfluidic device for dielectrophoretic fluorescence-activated droplet sorting" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,911, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Laser-induced confocal microscope and microfluidic device for dielectrophoretic fluorescence-activated droplet sorting" was invented by John Chaput (Irvine, Calif.), Derek Vallejo (Los Angeles) and Brian Paegel (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method for sorting droplets includes a microfluidic chip or substrate having a droplet sorting channel coupled at an upstream location to a droplet inlet channel, the droplet sorting channel coupled at a downstrea...