US Patent Issued to Applied Cells on Sept. 29 for "Magnetic device for sorting biological objects" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,606, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Applied Cells Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Magnetic device for sorting biological objects" was invented by Yuchen Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic device includes a soft magnetic center pole having a tapered tip end, first and second soft magnetic side poles disposed on opposite sides of the soft magnetic center pole, and a magnetic flux source generating magnetic flux in the soft magnetic center pole and the first and second soft magnetic side poles. The first and second soft magnetic side poles have first and second top ends, each end having a chisel edge profile...