US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Oct. 21 for "Apparatuses and methods for examining the movement of constituents within tissue cells" (Colombian, South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,358, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Apparatuses and methods for examining the movement of constituents within tissue cells" was invented by David D. Nolte (Lafayette, Ind.), Kwan Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Maria Josef Lopera (Medellin, Colombia) and John J. Turek (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for investigating the inside of a tissue cell are disclosed. Embodiments include diffusely scattering light off a target sample, producing two crossing beams from the scattered light, and using a camera to create an image from the light. Some ...