ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,467, issued on Aug. 4.

"Tissue engineered scaffolds, instrumented bioreactors and methods of use thereof" was invented by Josue A. Goss (Rogers, Ark.), Christophe Chantre (Cambridge, Mass.), Luke A. MacQueen (Cambridge, Mass.) and Kevin Kit Parker (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided including a housing configured to receive and engage a hollow tissue structure within a fluid chamber of the housing. A first pair of flow channels and a second pair of flow channels of the housing are fluidly coupled to the fluid chamber. The housing fluidly couples the first pair of flow channels and fluidly ...