US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY on June 17 for "Thixotropic biocompatible gel for live cell observation in cell computed tomography" (Arizona, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,382, issued on June 17, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Thixotropic biocompatible gel for live cell observation in cell computed tomography" was invented by Deirdre Meldrum (Phoenix), Fengyu Su (Tempe, Ariz.), Laimonas Kelbauskas (Gilbert, Ariz.), Vivek Nandakumar (Tempe, Ariz.), Yanqing Tian (Tempe, Ariz.) and Roger Johnson (Charleston, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thixotropic and biocompatible gel, formed by combining of 4-arm polyethylene glycol with fumed silica (PEG-silica). The thixotropicity of the gel is affected by the ratio of PEG to silica. To st...