ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,769, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Applied Cells Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Method and apparatus for magnetically sorting biological objects" was invented by Yuchen Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for magnetically sorting biological objects includes the steps of applying a magnetic field generated by a magnetic assembly to a flexible conduit; flowing a sample fluid containing magnetically labeled biological objects through the flexible conduit to collect the magnetically labeled biological objects on a conduit wall; removing the magnetic field from the flexible conduit; and mechanically deformin...