US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on April 22 for "Arbitrarily shaped, deep sub-wavelength acoustic manipulation for microparticle and cell patterning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,372, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Arbitrarily shaped, deep sub-wavelength acoustic manipulation for microparticle and cell patterning" was invented by Pei Yu E. Chiou (Oakland, Calif.), Kuan-Wen Tung (Oakland, Calif.) and Benjamin M. Wu (San Marino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a near-field acoustic platform capable of synthesizing high resolution, arbitrarily shaped energy potential wells. A thin and viscoelastic membrane is utilized to modulate acoustic wavefront on a deep, sub-wavelength scale by suppressing the structur...