US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services on Sept. 15 for "Insert for preparing cell culture chambers" (Maryland, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,666, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.).

"Insert for preparing cell culture chambers" was invented by Ralph E. Parchment (Frederick, Md.) and Thu A. Nguyen (Manhattan, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are inserts (100) for preparing a cell culture chamber(s), or array of chambers, inside of histology cassettes that are suitable for three-dimensional multicellular growth of a cell or cells into spheroids, organoids, or other 3D structures, such that the resulting 3D multi-cellular structures are ready an...