US Patent Issued to Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on March 17 for "System and method for screening therapeutic agents" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,522, issued on March 17, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh) and University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"System and method for screening therapeutic agents" was invented by Philip LeDuc (Wexford, Pa.), Li Wan (Pittsburgh), Carola Neumann (Pittsburgh), John Skoko (Pittsburgh), Jun Yin (Pittsburgh) and Mei Zhang (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug screening device is provided. A method of determining optimal drug concentrations and efficacy in a patient using the device are provided. A method of determining effective chemotherapeutic drugs and effective c...