ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,067, issued on July 14, was assigned to Syntr Health Technologies Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Method and device for processing tissues and cells by rotating microfluidic chips mounted on a support plate" was invented by Ahmed Zobi (Cerritos, Calif.), Adrian Bahani (Cerritos, Calif.), Justin Stovner (Cerritos, Calif.) and Hugo Salas (Cerritos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods of processing a sample that includes rotating one or more microfluidic chips that are mounted on a support plate. Each microfluidic chip can be rotated 180deg on the support plate so that the sample can be run bidirectionally through each of ...