US Patent Issued to Quiver Holdings on Sept. 15 for "Diagnostic methods for neural disorders" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,528, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Quiver Holdings Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Diagnostic methods for neural disorders" was invented by Kevin C. Eggan (Boston), Adam Cohen (Cambridge, Mass.), Joel Kralj (Somerville, Mass.) and Evangelos Kiskinis (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention generally relates to optical methods for the diagnosis of neuronal condition by converting a cell from a patient into a neuron and optically evaluating action potentials of that cell in vitro. The cell is transformed with an optical reporter and exhibits an optical signature in response to neural stimulation. Using genome-edi...