ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,844, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Culture vessels containing 3D cell culture substrates with diffusion structures" was invented by Feng Li (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Gregory Roger Martin (Acton, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell culture device comprises a multi-well cell culture plate comprising a plurality of wells, each well comprising a top, a bottom, and a sidewall disposed between the top and the bottom and having an interior surface comprising an ultra-low attachment surface. A plurality of scaffolds are disposed within wells of the multi-well cell culture plate, each scaffold compris...