ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,511, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Shenzhen, China).

"Magnetic sorting microfluidic chip and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Hui Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Lin Zeng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a magnetic sorting microfluidic chip, including a substrate, a chip model material layer, a micro-channel unit and a magnetic sorting unit, where the chip model material layer is disposed on the substrate, and the micro-channel unit and the magnetic sorting unit are both disposed in the chip model materi...