US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University on Sept. 30 for "Microfluidic devices and methods incorporating assay units with multiple 3D scaffold regions" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,517, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Microfluidic devices and methods incorporating assay units with multiple 3D scaffold regions" was invented by Mehdi Nikkhah (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Ouse Sheblak (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic device includes multiple microfluidic assay units arranged on a substrate, with each assay unit including multiple scaffold regions each containing a three-dimensional scaffold with associated cells, and a media channel surrounding a fluid-permeable boundary portion of at least a second ...