ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,153, issued on July 15, was assigned to AlveoliX Technologies AG (Bern, Switzerland) and UNIVERSITAT BERN (Bern, Switzerland).
"Cell culturing system and method" was invented by Olivier Thierry Guenat (Bern, Switzerland), Janick Daniel Stucki (Bern, Switzerland), Marcel Aeschlimann (Ligerz, Switzerland) and Christophe Lechot (Biel, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A culturing membrane comprising a support provided by a mesh with holes filled with extracellular matrix proteins, as well as a method of producing a culturing membrane made of components found in a basal membrane, comprising the steps of using a mesh having holes...