ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,374, issued on May 27, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Cell culture vessel" was invented by William Joseph Lacey (North Andover, Mass.), Gregory Roger Martin (Acton, Maine), Ana Maria del Pilar Pardo (Portsmouth, N.H.) and Allison Jean Tanner (Portsmouth, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell culture vessel has a wall and cell culture surface having a plurality of microcavities for culturing cells in three-dimensional conformation, referred to as "spheroids". The inner surface of the wall and the cell culture surface define a cell culture chamber of the vessel. The wall is attached to the cell culture surface in a...