US Patent Issued to The Brigham and Women's Hospital on Dec. 2 for "System and method for sperm sorting" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,164, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston).

"System and method for sperm sorting" was invented by Utkan Demirci (Cambridge, Mass.) and Waseem Asghar (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for sorting sperm is provided. The system includes a housing and a microfluidic system supported by the housing. The system also includes an inlet providing access to the microfluidic system to deliver sperm to the microfluidic system and an outlet providing access to the microfluidic system to harvest sorted sperm from the microfluidic system. The microfluidic system provides a flow path...