US Patent Issued to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University on Sept. 29 for "On-demand assembleable heterogeneous cell-culture platform" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,420, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (Greensboro, N.C.).

"On-demand assembleable heterogeneous cell-culture platform" was invented by Arvind Chandrasekaran (Greensboro, N.C.) and Vikram Surendran (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently disclosed subject matter relates generally to precisely integrating spatially-defined three-dimensional cell aggregates with complimentary cell-cultures within a co-culture system. In particular it relates to holding cell aggregates a defined distance from complimentary cell-cultures."

The patent was filed on Feb. ...