US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Jan. 13 for "Electronically-controlled digital ferrofluidic device and method for scalable and addressable bioanalytical operations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,719, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Electronically-controlled digital ferrofluidic device and method for scalable and addressable bioanalytical operations" was invented by Sam Emaminejad (Los Angeles), Dino Di Carlo (Los Angeles), Wenzhuo Yu (Los Angeles), Haisong Lin (Los Angeles) and Yilian Wang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronically-controlled digital ferrofluidic device is disclosed which employs a network of individually addressable coils in conjunction with one or more movable permanent magnets, where each moveable permanent magnet delive...