ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,031, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CARROUCELL (Sainte-Helene-du-Lac, France).
"Method for producing microcarriers for cell culture" was invented by Tarek Fathallah (Crolles, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming microcarriers includes forming liquid drops from a sol-gel solution; depositing the drops in the form of a liquid on a first, preferably hydrophobic support; deforming the drops deposited on the first support; solidifying the drops by gelling and drying, so as to form solid microcarriers; and extracting the solidified microcarriers from the first support."
The patent was filed on Jan. 6, 2021, under...