ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,791, issued on May 19, was assigned to OTTO-VON-GUERICKE UNIVERSITAT MAGDEBURG (Magdeburg, Germany).
"Bioreactor system for tissue engineering" was invented by Jan Patrick Pietras (Naumburg, Germany), George Kensah (Gottingen, Germany) and Julia Dahlmann (Hannover, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a novel bioreactor system for preparing an engineered three-dimensional biological tissue construct. The bioreactor system comprises a cultivation chamber that is designed to allow the formation, cultivation and the subsequent testing and/or stimulation of tissue constructs on one or more support elemen...