ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,933, issued on April 14, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium) and Katholieke University Leuven, KU LEUVEN R&D (Leuven, Belgium).
"Control of cell electroporation" was invented by Bastien Duckert (Heverlee, Belgium), Dries Braeken (Leuven, Belgium) and Maarten Fauvart (Bertem, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode unit for performing electroporation of a biological cell is provided, including at least one electrode which can contact a cell. A stimulation unit and an impedance measurement device are connected to the cell, respectively to provide signals to provide cell electroporation and to measure the impedance o...