US Patent Issued to ERASMUS UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER ROTTERDAM on July 21 for "Single cell selection and isolation" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,495, issued on July 21, was assigned to ERASMUS UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER ROTTERDAM (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

"Single cell selection and isolation" was invented by Miao-Ping Chien (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one method, a sample with cells contains a phototagging agent. The sample is imaged to identify at least one target cell to be isolated. The identified target cell in the sample is selectively irradiated with photo-activating light for selectively activating the phototagging agent in the target cell to change its fluorescence response. The irradiated target cell is isolated from other cells...