US Patent Issued to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on March 24 for "Medical device for culturing biological sample and embedding biological sample in embedding material, kit, and culturing and embedding method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,122, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Medical device for culturing biological sample and embedding biological sample in embedding material, kit, and culturing and embedding method" was invented by Yuji Tanaka (Kofu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device that includes: a base part that has an opening part; and a holder that holds the base part on a culture plate. The base part also has a channel that is in fluid communication with the opening part. Biological samples are cultured and embedded in an embedding material at the opening part."

The patent was filed on Sept. 16, 2021, ...