US Patent Issued to Keliomics on Sept. 22 for "Methods and systems for transportation and culture of buoyant tissue" (Louisiana, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,156, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Keliomics Inc. (Portland, Ore.).

"Methods and systems for transportation and culture of buoyant tissue" was invented by Frank Ho Pak Lau (New Orleans) and Jason Bourgeois (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for culturing a buoyant target tissue using a sandwich construct. Embodiments include preparing a buoyant target tissue in a sandwich construct for shipment, and preparing a sandwich construct comprising live tumor tissue for evaluation of candidate therapies for treating the tumor. The buoyant target tissue may include various cell ty...