US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on June 23 for "High throughput microfluidic device" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,648, issued on June 23, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"High throughput microfluidic device" was invented by James Eberwine (Philadelphia), Jai-Yoon Sul (Cherry Hill, N.J.), Paulo Arratia (Philadelphia), David Gagnon (Washington) and Ram Gona (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides microfluidic devices capable of generating a flow of fluids within a chamber. The flow of fluids mix within the chamber to form a gradient of concentrations. The chamber is capable of accepting a cell culture and is accessible to retrieve the cell culture. The microfluidic ...