US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 1 for "Degradable hollow shell particles for high-throughput screening and sorting of cells" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,967, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Degradable hollow shell particles for high-throughput screening and sorting of cells" was invented by Mark van Zee (Los Angeles), Dino Di Carlo (Los Angeles), Joseph de Rutte (Los Angeles), Sohyung Lee (Pasadena, Calif.), Robert Damoiseaux (Los Angeles) and Cayden Williamson (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Degradable hollow shell particles are disclosed that can encapsulate cells within the hollow inner cavity that allows for the high-throughput screening and sorting of the encapsulated cells based on their phenotypic p...