ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,980, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Imec VZW (Leuven, Belgium).
"Microfluidic device and system" was invented by Chengxun Liu (Heverlee, Belgium), Camila Dalben Madeira Campos (Heverlee, Belgium) and Xavier Rottenberg (Kessel-Lo, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for sorting particles are provided that include a microfluidic channel configured to receive a microfluidic flow that comprises a plurality of particles having different characteristics, the microfluidic channel having a plurality of output flow channels, a first detector configured to detect the location of the particles, a plurality of actuators locate...