US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on May 5 for "Transverse alternating current electrophoresis systems and methods" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,802, issued on May 5, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Transverse alternating current electrophoresis systems and methods" was invented by Aaron Timperman (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, comprising: determining electrophoretic mobility associated with a particle in a transverse alternating force microfluidic channel; determining a size of the particle based at least in part on one of Brownian motion of a particle or one or more images of the particle. A system comprising: a microfluidic channel; a plurality of electrodes oriented transverse to the microfluidic channe...