ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,724, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Molecular Devices (Austria) GmbH (Austria).
"Microplates for automating organoid cultivation" was invented by Josef Atzler (Hallein, Austria), Felix Spira (Wallersee, Austria) and Andreas Kenda (Woerthersee, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for growing, culturing, monitoring, and analyzing embryoid bodies, fused embryoid bodies, spheroids, organoids, or other multi-cellular bodies using a system of microplates. Different types of microplates are designed to be used during the various stages of growing and culturing of cells to form embryoid bodies, fused ...