ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,706, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FLASKWORKS LLC (Boston).
"Method for collecting cell types" was invented by Andrew Kozbial (East Boston, Mass.) and Lekhana Bhandary (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods for collecting desired cells from a sample using counterflow centrifugal elutriation. Methods of the invention provide for a continuous elutriation workflow with optimized conditions that improves cell purity and retention during the elutriation process. Specifically, methods of the invention use a continuous counterflow centrifugal elutriation process that does not require harvesting ...