US Patent Issued to UNM Rainforest Innovations on Jan. 20 for "Frequency controlled mechanical actuator with microfluidic flow for generation of 3D microgel for cell culturing" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,030, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to UNM Rainforest Innovations (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Frequency controlled mechanical actuator with microfluidic flow for generation of 3D microgel for cell culturing" was invented by Frank Anthony Fencl (Albuquerque, N.M.), Nick Carroll (Albuquerque, N.M.), Gabriel P. Lopez (Santa Fe, N.M.), Jacqueline De Lora (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Andrew P Shreve (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for acoustically assisted droplet generation with or without cell encapsulation."

The patent was filed on Oct. 21, 2019, under Application No. 17/286,603.

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