ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,845, issued on March 24, was assigned to RAMOT AT TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel) and FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E. V. (Munich).
"System and method thereof for real-time automatic label-free holography-activated sorting of cells" was invented by Natan Tzvi Shaked (Mazkeret Batya, Israel), Itay Barnea (Petach Tikva, Israel), Matan Dudaie (Giv'atayim, Israel), Noga Nissim (Ramat-Hasharon, Israel), Michael Kirschbaum (Nuthetal, Germany) and Marten Tobias Gerling (Potsdam, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an automatic real-time label-free holography-...