US Patent Issued to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory on Feb. 24 for "Acoustically-driven buffer switching for microparticles" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,771, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Acoustically-driven buffer switching for microparticles" was invented by Vishal Tandon (Somerville, Mass.), Charles A. Lissandrello (Newtonville, Mass.), Jenna Leigh Balestrini (Boston) and Ryan A. Dubay (Ludlow, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for sequential exposure of particles to different fluid streams includes an acoustic actuator device for acoustically driving one or more substrates and a microchannel device of the one or more substrates that receive particles in a first flowing fluid, moves the particles to a s...