ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,667, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama City, Japan).

"Cell culture substrate and cell culture scaffold kit" was invented by Chihiro Tachino (Kameyama City, Japan), Takeshi Hara (Kameyama City, Japan), Tomoko Teranishi (Kameyama City, Japan) and Satoshi Ihida (Kameyama City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell culture substrate includes a base, a first segment disposed on the base and occupying a part of one surface of the cell culture substrate, and a second segment disposed on the base and occupying another part of the one surface. The second segment is formed of a metal material a...