US Patent Issued to Carnegie Mellon University on July 29 for "Three-dimensional microtissues with integrated mechanical loading" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,658, issued on July 29, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"Three-dimensional microtissues with integrated mechanical loading" was invented by Adam Feinberg (Pittsburgh), Rebecca Duffy (Pittsburgh) and Jacqueline Wittmer (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes systems and methods for integrated mechanical loading of tissue. The system includes a three-dimensional tissue comprising organic material. The system includes a strip of bendable material. The strip includes a first region proximate to a first end of the strip coupled to the tissue. The strip includes a second region near a sec...