US Patent Issued to University of Washington on Dec. 9 for "Device, system, and method for trapping tissue samples" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,514, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Device, system, and method for trapping tissue samples" was invented by Albert Folch (Seattle), Adan Rodriguez (Seattle), Lisa Horowitz (Seattle), Allan Sung King Au-Yeung (Seattle) and Priscilla Delgado (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for trapping and manipulating portions of tissue are described. In an embodiment, the devices include an array of traps, wherein traps of the array of traps are shaped to trap a tissue sample; and a well is in registry and fluidic communication with a trap of the array of traps."

The patent...