US Patent Issued to QUIVER HOLDINGS on Oct. 21 for "Calibrating and normalizing an imager for optogenetics" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,414, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUIVER HOLDINGS INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Calibrating and normalizing an imager for optogenetics" was invented by Gabriel Benito Borja (Boston), Steven Nagle (Cambridge, Mass.), Christopher Werley (Cambridge, Mass.), Yang Lu (Cambridge, Mass.), Adam Barnett (Cambridge, Mass.), Owen McManus (Belmont, Mass.) and Graham T. Dempsey (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes methods and systems for optical assays, such as optogenetic assays, of biological activity in which an optical reference signal is used to normalize an optical test signal."

The patent was f...