ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,613, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to FUDAN UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).
"Apparatus and system for particle manipulation" was invented by Qing Wang (Shanghai), Antoine Jean-Pierre Rene Riaud (Shanghai) and Jia Zhou (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses an apparatus and a method for capturing and manipulating particles, relating to the field of acoustic manipulation. In view of the problems in the prior art that can't achieve a contactless, versatile, selective, and universal manipulation method for particles, the present application provides photoacoustic tweezers, which uses a photoacoustic transducer unit and...