US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 19 for "High-throughput cargo delivery into live cells using photothermal platforms" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,949, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"High-throughput cargo delivery into live cells using photothermal platforms" was invented by Yi-Chien Wu (Taichung, Taiwan), Ting-Hsiang S. Wu (Culver City, Calif.), Pei-Yu E. Chiou (Los Angeles) and Michael A. Teitell (Tarzana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and systems are provided for the delivery of agents (e.g., nucleic acids, proteins, organic molecules, organelles, antibodies or other ligands, etc.) into live cells and/or the extraction of the same from said cells. In various embodiments the photothe...