US Patent Issued to Trustees of Tufts College on July 1 for "System and method for assessing cellular metabolic activity" (Massachusetts, Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,644, issued on July 1, was assigned to Trustees of Tufts College (Boston).

"System and method for assessing cellular metabolic activity" was invented by Irene Georgakoudi (Winchester, Mass.), Dimitra Pouli (Medford, Mass.), Kyle P. Quinn (Fayetteville, Ark.) and Zhiyi Liu (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and corresponding apparatus and systems for assessing cellular metabolic activity are disclosed. In one aspect, a cell can be illuminated with optical radiation in order to cause multi-photon excitation of at least one endogenous metabolic cofactor in that cell and cause the excited metabolic cofactor to emit flu...