US Patent Issued on Sept. 8 for "Agent interaction effects determination" (Swedish, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,393, issued on Sept. 8.

"Agent interaction effects determination" was invented by Nikolaos Kavalopoulos (Uppsala, Sweden), Roderich Romhild (Vienna), Po-Cheng Tang (Uppsala, Sweden), Johan Kreuger (Uppsala, Sweden) and Dan Andersson (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell population (55) is cultured on a cell culture substrate (50) while agents contained in agent reservoirs (31, 33, 35) at predefined positions in a culture container (10) diffuse through the substrate (50) and form at least partly overlapping concentration gradients in the substrate (50) within combination areas (41, 43, 45) and substantially non-overla...