ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,425, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo) and The General Hospital Corp..
"Blood vessel model" was invented by Koju Ito (Kanagawa, Japan), Chihaya Kakinuma (Kanagawa, Japan), Daichi Hikimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinji Mima (Kanagawa, Japan), Takafumi Suehiro (Kanagawa, Japan), Craig M Neville (Boston) and Cathryn A Sundback (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a blood vessel model including: a pair of channel members, mutually opposing each other, each of which includes an opposing face in which a respective microchannel is formed; and a porous membrane that includes plural throug...