ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,344, issued on March 25, was assigned to Harbin Institute of Technology (Harbin, China).

"Living cell microbeam directional and quantitative irradiation imaging apparatus and method" was invented by Chenguang Liu (Harbin, China), Jian Liu (Harbin, China) and Zhao Chen (Harbin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a living cell microbeam directional and quantitative irradiation imaging apparatus. The problem that qualitative analysis of the mechanism of action of biological cells irradiated cannot accurately study the mechanism of action of different irradiation doses on biological cells as the cell irradiation technology...