ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,727, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to CyteQuest Inc. (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Devices and methods for increasing throughput of flow-based electroporation systems" was invented by Thomas N. Corso (Groton, N.Y.), Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Jacob Vanderburgh (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are flow devices and methods for electroporation, which allow controlling the throughput of electroporation, for example by operating the electroporation process at selected throughput or operating at an increased or decreased level of throughput compared to a reference level of throughput by scaling a subset of electropor...