US Patent Issued on Aug. 11 for "Systems, apparatuses, and methods to measure deformability of red blood cells in microfluidic channels" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,449, issued on Aug. 11.

"Systems, apparatuses, and methods to measure deformability of red blood cells in microfluidic channels" was invented by Andy W Brown (Richardson, Texas), Moin S Shafai (Richardson, Texas), Ryadh A Zakaria (Portsmouth, Great Britain), Christina Caruso (Atlanta), Evelyn Kendall Williams (Atlanta), Kirby Fibben (Atlanta) and Wilbur Lam (Decatur, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for measuring deformability of red blood cells in microfluidic channels are disclosed. The system comprises one or more devices having one or more microfluidic channels with at least one cross-sectional dimension a...