ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,094, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Boston).
"Cell housing device" was invented by Christopher Thanos (Providence, R.I.), Danya M. Lavin (Mansfield, Mass.), Briannan E. Bintz (Lincoln, R.I.), Divya Bhatnagar (Highland Park, N.J.), John Mills (Warwick, R.I.) and Megan Billings (Warwick, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a cell housing device and a method of manufacturing such a device that has an array of channels to increase the ratio of surface area to volume."
The patent was filed on Sept. 21, 2023, under Application No. 18/471,622.
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