US Patent Issued to INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS (IIT MADRAS) on June 30 for "Massively parallel high throughput single-cell optoporation" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,767, issued on June 30, was assigned to INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS (IIT MADRAS) (Chennai, India).

"Massively parallel high throughput single-cell optoporation" was invented by Pallavi Shinde (Chennai, India), Srabani Kar (Chennai, India) and Tuhin Subhra Santra (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Massively parallel high throughput single-cell optoperation and their uses thereof are disclosed. The disclosed method teaches the use of parallel single-cell printing technique using SU-8 membrane and nanosecond pulsed laser to espouse on single-cell with micro-dish pattern structure. The platform is able to effectivel...