US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG on Nov. 3 for "Photonic chip for monitoring activities of living cells" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,277, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Photonic chip for monitoring activities of living cells" was invented by Zhiqin Chu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Yuan Lin (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Jixiang Jing (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Yong Hou (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods of label-free detecting cellular physiological activities involving monitoring local refractive index changes associated with cellular physiological activities using a single ultracompact light emitting diode (LED) chip serving as a refractometer."

The patent was filed on...