US Patent Issued to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM on June 23 for "Hyperuniform-structured profiling system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,361, issued on June 23, was assigned to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (Lubbock, Texas).

"Hyperuniform-structured profiling system" was invented by Zhenya Ding (Lubbock, Texas) and Wei Li (Lubbock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A a hyperuniform-structured microchip is configured for providing viable resolution of CTC subpopulations supporting the ability to determine whether there is a correlation between CTC heterogeneity and tumor progression, the microchip including a substrate, a microfluidic enclosure around the substrate, and a plurality of microposts configured on the substrate in a hyperuniform pattern."

The patent was ...