US Patent Issued to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE on Sept. 8 for "Gravity flow micro-physiological article and determining a physiological response to a drug" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,415, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Gravity flow micro-physiological article and determining a physiological response to a drug" was invented by Mandy Brigitte Esch (Gaithersburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gravity flow micro-physiological article determines a physiological response to a drug and includes: supply chambers; a mixing chamber; and a liquid divider, wherein the divider divides fluid under gravitational force so that individual portions of the fluid independently include metabolites in a proportionat...