US Patent Issued to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory on April 14 for "Microfluidic cell culture plate for air-liquid interface and 3D cultured tissue applications" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,931, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Microfluidic cell culture plate for air-liquid interface and 3D cultured tissue applications" was invented by Jonathan R. Coppeta (Windham, N.H.), Hesham Azizgolshani (Belmont, Mass.), Brian P. Cain (Cambridge, Mass.), Brett C. Isenberg (Newton, Mass.), Joseph L. Charest (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), Else M. Vedula (Stoneham, Mass.), Ashley L. Gard (Dorchester, Mass.), Ryan S. Maloney (Cambridge, Mass.), Jeffrey T. Borenstein (West Roxbury, Mass.) and Rebeccah J. Luu (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure...