US Patent Issued to CFD RESEARCH on May 26 for "Computational in silico model for placental barrier" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,054, issued on May 26, was assigned to CFD RESEARCH Corp. (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Computational in silico model for placental barrier" was invented by Carrie Lynn German (Huntsville, Ala.), Balabhaskar Prabhakarpandian (Madison, Ala.), Ketan Harendrakumar Bhatt (Huntsville, Ala.) and Ashley Gilbert Helser (Huntsville, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method involves computationally modeling a placenta by simulating physical placenta models with computational in silico models. The simulated data is compared with actual data from the physical models, and the simulation is iterated until a match is achieved. The method may also inclu...