US Patent Issued to Indiana University Research and Technology on Oct. 28 for "Methods for identifying and using cell behavior in drug screening and diagnosis" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,194, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Methods for identifying and using cell behavior in drug screening and diagnosis" was invented by Feng Guo (Bloomington, Ind.), Hongwei Cai (Bloomington, Ind.) and Zheng Ao (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to methods used to perform diagnosis and drug screening because the method includes an algorithm that is able to obtain images of immune cells in 3D tissue cultures, analyze such images to create immune cell infiltration maps, automatically score and id...