US Patent Issued to University of Virginia Patent Foundation on May 13 for "Amplifier system and controls for dielectrophoretic tracking in microfluidic devices" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,481, issued on May 13, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Amplifier system and controls for dielectrophoretic tracking in microfluidic devices" was invented by Nathan Swami (Charlottesville, Va.), Ali Rohani (Charlottesville, Va.), Vahid Farmehini (Charlottesville, Va.) and Walter Varhue (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices are described herein for identifying, monitoring, isolating, or selecting a cell having a predefined characteristic in a mixed population of cells utilizing a combination of any one or more of iDEP, a region of localized f...