ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,895, issued on June 9, was assigned to Universitat Bern (Bern, Switzerland).

"Device for in-vitro modelling in-vivo tissues of organs" was invented by Olivier Thierry Guenat (Bern, Switzerland), Marcel Felder (Bern, Switzerland), Andreas Stucki (Bern, Switzerland), Janick Daniel Stucki (Bern, Switzerland) and Thomas Geiser (Hinterkappelen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for in-vitro modelling in-vivo tissues of organs that includes a device for in-vitro modelling in-vivo tissues of organs, the device including an open access chamber, a perfusion channel, and a culturing membrane dividing the access chamber from th...