US Patent Issued to xCella Biosciences on May 19 for "Apparatus and methods for laser-based single cell recovery from microcapillary arrays" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,532, issued on May 19, was assigned to xCella Biosciences Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for laser-based single cell recovery from microcapillary arrays" was invented by Bob Chen (San Diego), Austin Blanco (San Diego), Ryan Lewis Kelly (San Diego), Frances Liu (San Diego), Derek Croote (San Diego) and Samuel Timothy Hatch (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for recovering content of a sample from a microcapillary array are provided. The microcapillary array includes a plurality of microcapillary wells. A laser is positioned to target a first microcapillary well in the plurality of microcap-...