ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,790, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to UNIVERSITE DE VERSAILLES SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES VERSAILLES (FR) (Versailles, France), CENTRE HOSPITALIER INTERCOMMUNAL DE POISSY-SAINT-GERMAIN (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France), UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX (Bordeaux, France), CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE BORDEAUX (Talence, France) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).

"Device for observing a living cell or a set of living cells" was invented by Francois Vialard (Paris), Clement Jimenez (Paris), Christophe Geindre (Pessac, France), Bruno Hiberty (Pessac, France) and Hugo Ducros (Pessac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office:...