ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,448, issued on March 25, was assigned to NANOSCOPE INSTRUMENTS INC. (Bedford, Texas).

"Image guided variable spot stimulation-based electrophysiology assessment device to determine changes in the functional health of biological samples during disease progression and therapy" was invented by Samarendra Kumar Mohanty (Southlake, Texas), Sanghoon Kim (Bedford, Texas), Michael Carlson (Rowlett, Texas) and Subrata Batabyal (Arlington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to an image guided variable spot stimulation-based electrophysiology assessment device for different biomedical applications. Spe...