ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,420, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).

"Systems and methods for multi-junction particle sorting in injection-molded articles" was invented by Saurabh Vyawahare (Mountain View, Calif.), Andrew Homyk (Belmont, Calif.), Michael Brundage (Lincoln, Mass.), Srinivas Hanasoge (Foster City, Calif.) and Junjia Ding (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to a method of producing a microfluidic sorting apparatus. The method includes providing an injection-molded substrate comprising a network of channels; bonding an insulating film to an upper surface of the substrat...