US Patent Issued to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING / MCGILL UNIVERSITY on June 24 for "Method and device for measuring cell contractility" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,231, issued on June 24, was assigned to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING / MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal, Canada).

"Method and device for measuring cell contractility" was invented by Allen Ehrlicher (Montreal), Ali Amini Harandi (Montreal, Canada) and Ajinkya Ghagre (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method can include: acquiring an image of an arrangement having at least one cell covering at least one adhesive surface area, the at least one adhesive surface area being predictively deformable upon exerting cellular forces stemming from said at least one cell; measuring, from the image, a surface area of ...