ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,671, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for classifying T cell activation state" was invented by Melissa C. Skala (Middleton, Wis.), Kayvan Samimi (Madison, Wis.), Emmanuel Contreras-Guzman (Madison, Wis.) and Alexandra Jule Walsh (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for classifying T cells by activation state are disclosed. The system includes a cell analysis pathway, a time-resolved autofluorescence decay spectrometer, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable memory. The memory is accessible to the processor and has st...