US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on May 13 for "Lateral filter array microfluidic device" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,417, issued on May 13, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Lateral filter array microfluidic device" was invented by Zhonghui Hugh Fan (Gainesville, Fla.) and Kangfu Chen (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lateral filter array microfluidic (LFAM) device for highly efficient immunoaffinity isolation of target cells from a population of cells. The LFAM device may include of one or more serpentine main channels incorporated with lateral filter arrays. Antibodies are immobilized on the channel surface including the lateral filters and are capable of specific binding to one or ...