ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,311, issued on June 24, was assigned to Baylor College of Medicine (Houston) and William Marsh Rice University (Houston).
"Engineering novel enteroid models for understanding human enteric disease" was invented by Tatiana Y. Fofanova (Houston), Jennifer Auchtung (Houston), Reid Laurence Wilson (Houston), Christopher Stewart (Houston), Joseph Petrosino (Houston), Robert Allen Britton (Houston), Jane Grande-Allen (Houston), Noah F. Shroyer (Houston) and Mary K. Estes (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anaerobic chamber system to evaluate human enteric disease is described herein that can be used to test therapeutic components. ...