US Patent Issued to National University of Singapore, Singapore Health Services on Sept. 15 for "Maintenance and/or culture of tissue slices in vitro or ex vivo" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,523, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to National University of Singapore (Singapore) and Singapore Health Services PTE LTD (Singapore).

"Maintenance and/or culture of tissue slices in vitro or ex vivo" was invented by Li Shan Eliza Fong (Singapore), Christabella Adine (Singapore), Narayanan Gopalakrishna Iyer (Singapore) and Elekuttige Anton Kanishka Fernando (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the maintenance and/or culture of tissue slices in vitro or ex vivo. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for the maintenance and/or culture of tissue slices using hydrogels. In one ...