US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Aug. 4 for "Cell-containing structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,473, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Cell-containing structure" was invented by Yuki Kaga (Yokohama, Japan), Tomoaki Nakayama (Tokyo), Tomoyuki Aratani (Yokohama, Japan), Shinnosuke Koshizuka (Yamato, Japan), Tatsuya Sameshima (Yokohama, Japan), Momoko Shionoiri (Yokohama, Japan), Tomofumi Kitazawa (Kawasaki, Japan) and Rie Ijichi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell-containing structure is provided that allows ready-to-use nerve drug response evaluation with high reproducibility to be easily performed. The cell-containing structure for evaluating an electrical property of neurons includes: (a) a cul...