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Parsortix Granted Second US Patent
Parsortix Granted Second US Patent.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 0970O Angle PLC 04 August 2014 \n \n\n\n\n\n\nFor immediate release \n \n\n\n4 August 2014\n\n\n\n\n \nANGLE plc \n(\"ANGLE\" or \"the Company\")\n \nPARSORTIX GRANTED SECOND US PATENT\n \nANGLE plc (AIM: AGL), the specialist medtech company, is delighted to announce that it has been granted a second United States Patent for its Parsortix system, which captures rare cells in blood for medical analysis. \n \nThis is the second patent covering the Parsortix system and has been filed under Number 8,765,456 B2, entitled \"Microstructure for Particle and Cell Separation, Identification, Sorting, and Manipulation\".\n \nThe second patent strengthens the claims regarding the core Parsortix technology protected by the first patent. Corresponding patent applications have been made worldwide in countries considered to represent substantial markets for Parsortix products and are in process.\n \nThe second patent protects aspects of design, manufacture and deployment of the Parsortix cell separation equipment including:\n \n· concepts concerning the core separation technology\n \n· different types of separation structure design, materials and manufacturing methods\n \n· mechanisms of cell separation such as degree of cell deformability, or interaction between cell surface and device construction materials\n \n· treatment of construction materials or components with reagents such as antibodies to enable specialised separations \n \n· methods to harvest captured target cells (i.e. recovering them from a separation device after capture so they can be used for subsequent analysis, diagnosis, culture or fractionation)\n \n· priming processes to prepare separation devices for use in routine processes (for example to remove air bubbles)\n \n· use of separation devices in combination (for example multiple devices linked in parallel for simultaneous separations of several blood samples)\n \n· separation of specific cell types including foetal cells and stem cells in addition to circulating tumour cells \n \n· cell detection, identifica...