ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,852, issued on July 21, was assigned to Novoheart International Ltd. (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Support and system for engineered tissue" was invented by Erin G. Roberts (Kwun Tong, Hong Kong), Eugene K. Lee (Kwun Tong, Hong Kong), David D. Tran (Kwun Tong, Hong Kong), Suet Yee Mak (Kwun Tong, Hong Kong), Bernard Fermini (Kwun Tong, Hong Kong) and Andy Wong (Kwun Tong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to tissue supports for use with engineered tissues and organoids, such as cardiac organoid chambers. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the tissue supports are provided with a fluid-impermeabl...