US Patent Issued to Cellanome on Feb. 17 for "Cell sorting and selection using degradable hydrogels" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,819, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cellanome Inc..

"Cell sorting and selection using degradable hydrogels" was invented by Tarun Kumar Khurana (Fremont, Calif.), Meng Taing (Hayward, Calif.), Pier Federico Gherardini (Oakland, Calif.) and Seyedsina Moeinzadeh (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for sorting and selecting cells by immobilizing or enclosing cells in degradable hydrogel chambers, including a method of sorting cells comprising: (a) providing a fluidics device comprising: (i) a channel comprising a surface, (ii) a spatial energy modulation element in optical c...