US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on May 19 for "Spiral inertial microfluidic devices and methods to remove contaminants" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,679, issued on May 19, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Spiral inertial microfluidic devices and methods to remove contaminants" was invented by Kyungyong Choi (Cambridge, Mass.), Jongyoon Han (Bedford, Mass.) and Stacy L. Springs (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spiral inertial microfluidics device has been designed for use as a microfluidic sorting device. The device includes a spiral microchannel in which particles or cells of different sizes go through regions having different magnitudes of inertial and/or drag forces and equilibrate at different lateral positions in the mi...