US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Indiana University on March 31 for "High-throughput acoustofluidic fabrication of cell spheroids" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,277, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Trustees of Indiana University (Bloomington, Ind.).

"High-throughput acoustofluidic fabrication of cell spheroids" was invented by Feng Guo (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an apparatus, such as an acoustofluidic device, for high-throughput fabrication of multicellular spheroids. The device has a chamber substrate having at least one cell assembly channel; an acoustic transducer; and, a coupling layer disposed between the chamber substrate and the acoustic transducer."

The patent was filed on March 26, 2020, under Application No. 17/598,097.

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