ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,841, issued on July 21, was assigned to The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"High throughput migrating cell isolation retrieval device and methods of fabrication" was invented by Robert M. Bachoo (Southlake, Texas) and Digant P. Dave (Arlington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Cell Migration Assay Plates (CMAP) assembly for high throughput microfluidic migration assays and method of manufacturing thereof are provided. The CMAP assembly includes a top plate having a plurality of wells aligned with a trough component having a plurality of troughs. Each of the wells is defined at least in part ...