ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,050, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"System and devices for monitoring cell-containing materials and methods of their use" was invented by Jared Matthews (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Lawrence Bonassar (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application is directed to a system for collecting or extruding a cell-containing biological material. The system includes an extrusion/collection device comprising: an orifice and a chamber operably connected to the orifice and an electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) device, operably connected to the extrusion/collection device. The EIS device monito...