US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION on Oct. 6 for "Microstructure and molecular detection method" (South Korean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,270, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo) and KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Microstructure and molecular detection method" was invented by Hyonchol Kim (Tsukuba, Japan), Dai Kato (Tsukuba, Japan), Chikashi Nakamura (Tsukuba, Japan), Man Bock Gu (Seoul, South Korea) and Cheul Min Joe (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a microstructure equipped with a mechanism for selectively detecting marker molecules expressed or secreted by individual cells forming a cell population, a method for fabricating suc...