US Patent Issued to CORNING on Nov. 25 for "Kit and method for preparation of digestible spheroid stabilizing hydrogels" (New Hampshire, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,084, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Kit and method for preparation of digestible spheroid stabilizing hydrogels" was invented by Ann Meejin Ferrie (Salem, N.H.) and Vasiliy Nikolaevich Goral (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Kits for making a spheroid-stabilizing hydrogel in a calcium-free or calcium-chelated cell culture media include (a) a gelation agent including a polygalacturonic acid (PGA) compound or an alginic acid compound, wherein the PGA compound includes at least one of: (i) pectic acid or salts thereof, or (ii) partially esterified pectic acid having a degree of esterif...