US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 8 for "System and method for deforming and analyzing particles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,057, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"System and method for deforming and analyzing particles" was invented by Dino Di Carlo (Los Angeles), Daniel R. Gossett (Los Angeles), Henry T.K. Tse (San Francisco) and Aram Chung (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for deforming a plurality of particles carried in a sample volume includes a reusable substrate defining an inlet, configured to receive the sample volume, and an outlet, wherein the inlet or outlet is configured to couple to a module to introduce or collect a washing or flushing solution. A fluidic pa...