US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Aug. 25 for "Hydrodynamically controlled electric fields for high throughput transformation and high throughput parallel transformation platform" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,061, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Hydrodynamically controlled electric fields for high throughput transformation and high throughput parallel transformation platform" was invented by Paulo Andres Garcia Dominguez (Cambridge, Mass.), Zhifei Ge (Cambridge, Mass.), Rameech N. McCormack (Cambridge, Mass.) and Cullen Richard Buie (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for cell electroporation are provided. An apparatus includes a fluid transport structure, such as a pipette, that includes an electroporation structure defining a flow path hav...