ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,376, issued on May 26, was assigned to SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Shenzhen, China).
"Cellular mechanical property measurement and sorting system, method, and terminal" was invented by Long Meng (Shenzhen, China), Wei Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Hairong Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Lili Niu (Shenzhen, China) and Benxian Peng (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cellular mechanical property measurement and sorting method comprises: cells to be sorted being arranged in a straight line after passing through a standing wave acoustic field generated by a first interdigital transducer; the ce...