ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,171, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, Ark.).

"Cell-sensory bioscaffolds, fabrication methods and applications of same" was invented by Zheng Ryan Tian (Fayetteville, Ark.), Hanan Alismail (AlRiyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Yuchun Du (Fayetteville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell sensor and methods of using the cell sensor for differentiating types of cells. The cell sensor includes a sensing member having bioscaffolds comprising nanofibers/nanowires of titanate grown on a titanium sheet. The method includes preparing a cell sensor comprising a sensing member having bi...