US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, Novoheart International on Sept. 9 for "Methods and apparatuses for prediction of mechanism of activity of compounds" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,128, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and Novoheart International Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Methods and apparatuses for prediction of mechanism of activity of compounds" was invented by Michelle Khine (Irvine, Calif.), Eugene Lee (Irvine, Calif.), Tang Wai Ronald Adolphus Li (Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong) and David Dan Tran (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platform configured to predict type or family of an unknown drug candidate compound, the platform including: a living cell or a tissue; a detector that measures an indicator of a cellular response by the living...