ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,341, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cambridge Enterprise Ltd. (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).
"Tuneable cell substrates" was invented by Chibeza Chintu Agley (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Kevin Chalut (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain) and Jose Carlos Rebelo da Silva (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a substrate for mammalian cell culture comprising a co-polymer hydrogel comprising monomeric units of acrylamide, bisacrylamide and a coupling compound, such as 6-acylamidohexanoic acid (6AHA). A cell adhesion molecule, such as a component of the extracellular matrix (ECM), is cova...