ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,502, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for determining metabolic poise and capacity of living cells" was invented by Maria Natalia Romero Filardo (Brookline, Mass.) and James Niall Hynes (Little Island, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for evaluating the bioenergetic poise and bioenergetic capacity of living cells in a single assay."

The patent was filed on Oct. 11, 2022, under Application No. 18/045,607.

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