ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,399, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Cell sorting device and method" was invented by Yu-Hwa Lo (San Diego) and Yi Gu (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell sorting system is provided to comprise: an imaging device including abeam scanner scanning abeam along a first direction to obtain a cell image data including fluorescent information or cell image information of a cell, the beam applied to the cell flowing in a channel along a second direction with an angle to the first direction; a data processing and control device in communication with the imagi...