US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY on Aug. 19 for "System and method for identifying, selecting and purifying particles" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,765, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY (Bloomington, Ind.).

"System and method for identifying, selecting and purifying particles" was invented by Brooke A. Brown (Bloomington, Ind.), David E. Clemmer (Bloomington, Ind.) and Martin F. Jarrold (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for purifying particles generates charged particles from a sample, measures at least at least one of masses, charge magnitudes and mobilities of the generated charged particles, and selectively passes to a particle collection target each of the measured charged particles having at least one of (a) a me...