US Patent Issued to Universitat Ulm on Sept. 23 for "Apparatus and method for detecting a spatial elongation of at least one adherent biological cell" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,657, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Universitat Ulm (Ulm, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for detecting a spatial elongation of at least one adherent biological cell" was invented by Tobias Neckernuss (Eislingen, Germany), Daniel Geiger (Mittelbiberach, Germany) and Othmar Marti (Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for detecting a spatial elongation of at least one adherent biological cell is provided. The apparatus contains at least one biological cell, which is adhered to a substrate, a laser for irradiating the at least one biological cell for a spatial elongation of the cell in a direction parallel to t...