ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,070, issued on July 14, was assigned to GUANGDONG LABORATORY OF SOUTHERN OCEAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (GUANGZHOU) (Guangdong, China) and GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangdong, China).

"Device and method for single-cell high-throughput sorting in marine in-situ environment" was invented by Jingchun Feng (Guangdong, China), Si Zhang (Guangdong, China), Zhifeng Yang (Guangdong, China), Yi Wang (Guangdong, China), Yanpeng Cai (Guangdong, China) and Song Zhong (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a device for single-cell high-throughput sorting in a marine in-situ environment. The device...