ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,843, issued on July 21, was assigned to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"End-to-end cell therapy bioprocessing device for continuous-flow enrichment, washing, and electrotransfection of target cells" was invented by Vishal Tandon (Somerville, Mass.), Jeffrey Borenstein (West Roxbury, Mass.), Jason Fiering (Somerville, Mass.), Jenna Balestrini (Boston), Heena Mutha (Somerville, Mass.), Jonathan Robert Coppeta (Windham, N.H.) and Mark Mescher (West Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for cell bioprocessing and cell therapy manufacturing can include a series of microfluidic modules to enabl...