ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,011, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to THRIVE BIOSCIENCE INC. (Wakefield, Mass.).

"Method and system for performing cell operations using a verifiable data structure" was invented by Alan Blanchard (Wakefield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for performing operations on cells in an instrument wherein the performance of operations on cell samples is controlled and data relating to the operations is generated, a unique identifier is associated with the instrument, the generated data is encrypted with a key corresponding to the unique identifier and a hash of one of the generated data and the encrypted generated ...