ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,805, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to D.I.V.A EXPERTISE (Toulouse, France).
"Method for obtaining cell spheroids" was invented by Mayoura Keophiphath (Toulouse, France), Chloe Belles (Toulouse, France), Aurelie Gomes (Toulouse, France) and Marine Norlund (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for obtaining spheroids of differentiated cells, in particular of adipocytes without an exogenous matrix. These spheroids are particularly suitable for carrying out metabolic studies on test compounds by mimicking as well as possible the functioning of an organ in vivo such as adipose tissue, for exa...