ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,302, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Allegro 3D Inc. (San Diego).

"Method and apparatus for high-throughput maskless fabrication of polymer scaffolds and biological tissues in multi-well plates" was invented by Wei Zhu (San Diego) and Wei Wei (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for fabrication of polymer scaffolds and biological tissues in the multi-well plates in a rapid, high-throughput, controllable and reproducible manner by using optical exposure of the wells to patterned probe light without using a photomask. In some aspects, an apparatus includes a light source to produce a probe li...