US Patent Issued to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) on May 20 for "Miniaturized MR device comprising a cell culture micro-chamber and method for manufacturing such a device" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,122, issued on May 20, was assigned to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Miniaturized MR device comprising a cell culture micro-chamber and method for manufacturing such a device" was invented by Marco Grisi (Preverenges, Switzerland), Giovanni Boero (Preverenges, Switzerland), Juergen Brugger (Vufflens-la-Ville, Switzerland) and Gaurasundar Marc Conley (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "MR device (100) comprising a miniaturized magnetic resonance system (101) and a cell culture chamber (502) for the analysis of biological samples of less than about 1000 micro metre in size, ...