ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,509, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ANCERA INC. (Branford, Conn.).
"Systems and methods for bead-based assays in ferrofluids" was invented by Hur Koser (Wallingford, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for separating, directing, and/or extracting a target molecule from a mix of molecules and may comprise a plurality of non-magnetic beads suspended in a ferro fluid, where the non-magnetic beads may be functionalized with at least one predetermined first molecule configured to bind with a target particle. A microfluidic device may be included which may ...