US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute on Feb. 24 for "Rapid analysis of live cells" (Massachusetts, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,590, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. (Boston).

"Rapid analysis of live cells" was invented by David Weinstock (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), Scott R. Manalis (Portland, Ore.), Robert J. Kimmerling (Cambridge, Mass.) and Selim Olcum (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of rapid functional analysis of cells is provided. A body fluid sample is introduced into a reservoir of a measurement instrument. A living cell is loaded directly from the body fluid sample into a channel of the measurement instrument in the absence of long-t...