US Patent Issued to CORNELL UNIVERSITY on June 17 for "Systems, compositions, and methods for evaluating biomechanical properties of cells" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,254, issued on June 17, was assigned to CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Systems, compositions, and methods for evaluating biomechanical properties of cells" was invented by Nicholas Abbott (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Karthik Nayani (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The response of biological cells to applied stress is central to the functioning of living systems. The present disclosure is directed to systems, compositions and methods for rapidly reporting biomechanical properties of cells or cellular organelles at a single cell or population level."

The patent was filed on April 24, 2020, under Application No. 17/605,792.

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